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. 2017 Apr 30;55(2):129–135. doi: 10.3347/kjp.2017.55.2.129

Table 1.

Occurrence of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in water samples collected from swimming pools in Beijing, China

No. of sample Cryptosporidium (no. of oocysts/10 L) Giardia (no. of cysts/10 L)


No. of positive (%) Mean±SD Min.–Max. 95% UCLa No. of positive (%) Mean±SD Min.–Max. 95% UCLa
Time of sampling
 May 2015 27 2 (7.4) 0.07±0.27 0–1 0.20 4 (14.8) 0.22±0.64 0–3 0.50
 August 2015 33 8 (24.2) 0.48±1.00 0–4 0.85 5 (15.2) 0.30±0.77 0–3 0.58

Pool type
 Outdoor pool 5 2 (40.0) 0.60±0.89 0–2 1.50 2 (40.0) 0.80±1.30 0–3 2.00
 School pool 12 4 (33.3) 0.58±1.00 0–3 1.17 2 (16.7) 0.25±0.62 0–2 0.67
 Community pool 9 1 (11.1) 0.22±0.67 0–2 0.80 2 (22.2) 0.33±0.71 0–2 0.88
 Hotel pool 13 1 (7.7) 0.15±0.38 0–1 0.38 1 (7.7) 0.23±0.83 0–3 0.75
 Bath pool 12 0 (0.0) 0.00±0.00 0–0 0.00 0 (0.0) 0.00±0.00 0–0 0.00
 Commercial pool 9 2 (22.2) 0.44±1.33 0–4 1.45 2 (22.2) 0.33±0.71 0–2 0.80

Total 60 10 (16.7) 0.30±0.79 0–4 0.50 9 (15.0) 0.27±0.71 0–3 0.45
a

UCL, upper confidence limit which was calculated based on 1,000 bootstrap samples using PASW statistics 18 software.