Table 1.

The distribution of Cryptosporidium suis and Cryptosporidium scrofarum among examined wild boars in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and the Slovak Republic based on the result of PCR using species-specific primers

Country	Locality	No. of screened samples	Microscopy positive	PCR positive	Prevalence [%]	Molecular characterisation of Cryptosporidium spp.
						Mono-infection				Mixed infection
						C. suis		C. scrofarum		C. suis + C. scrofarum
						Positive	Prevalence [%]	Positive	Prevalence [%]	Positive	Prevalence [%]
Austria	1	20	1a	5	25.0	2	10.0	1	5.0	2	10.0
	2	16	1b	3	18.8	0	-	2	12.5	1	6.3
	3	8	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Total		44	2	8	18.2	2	4.5	3	6.8	3	6.8
Czech Republic	4	19	0	5	26.3	2	10.5	0	-	3	15.8
	5	17	2b	6	35.3	2	11.8	4	23.5	0	-
	6	7	0	1	14.3	1	14.3	0	-	0	-
	7	14	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
	8	18	0	1	5.6	0	-	0	-	1	5.6
	9	31	1a	6	19.4	4	12.9	0	-	2	6.5
	10	6	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
	11	10	0	2	20.0	0	-	2	20.0	0	-
	12	7	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
	13	9	0	1	11.1	0	-	1	11.1	0	-
	14	26	1a	5	19.2	2	7.7	1	3.9	2	7.7
	15	34	0	6	17.7	2	5.9	0	-	4	11.8
	16	3	0	1	33.3	0	-	1	33.3	0	-
	17	30	2b	5	16.7	0	-	5	16.7	0	-
Total		231	6	39	16.9	13	5.6	14	6.1	12	5.2
Poland	18	12	1b	3	25.0	0	-	3	25.0	0	-
	19	15	0	1	6.7	0	-	1	6.7	0	-
	20	13	2b	4	30.8	1	7.7	3	23.1	0	-
	21	18	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
	22	12	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
	23	14	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
	24	15	0	1	6.7	0	-	1	6.7	0	-
	25	15	0	2	13.3	0	-	0	-	2	13.3
	26	15	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Total		129	3	77	8.5	7	0.8	8	6.2	2	1.6
Slovak Republic	27	10	0	1	10.0	0	-	1	10.0	0	-
	28	26	0	2	7.7	2	7.7	0	-	0	-
	29	20	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-
Total		56	0	3	5.4	2	3.6	1	1.8	0	-
Overall total		460	11	61	13.3	18	3.9	26	5.7	17	3.7

^adetermined by following PCR as C. suis;

^bdetermined by following PCR as C. scrofarum