. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 29.

Published in final edited form as: J Water Health. 2016 Jun;14(3):411–423. doi: 10.2166/wh.2016.192

Table 1.

Occurrence and distribution of Cryptosporidium species in WWTP effluents in Shanghai, China

Sampling site	No. of samples	IMS-IFA		Nested PCR^a

		No. of positive samples (%)	Mean ± SD oocysts/L (range)	No. of positive samples (%)	Species (No. of positive samples)
WWTP1	16	13 (81)	0.30 ± 0.37 (0–0.93)	10 (62)	C. muris (9), rat genotype I (2), C. hominis (1), C. meleagridis (1), C. canis (1), C. baileyi (1), rat genotype IV (1)
WWTP2	18	6 (33)	0.093 ± 0.16 (0–0.47)	4 (22)	C. suis-like (2), C. meleagridis (3), C. parvum (1), C. muris (1)
WWTP3	16	12 (75)	0.088 ± 0.083 (0–0.27)	6 (38)	C. muris (3), C. parvum (2), C. meleagridis (2), C. felis (1), C. suis-like (1)

Data from PCR and PMA-PCR combined.