Table 1.
Occurrence of Cryptosporidium hominis and Giardia duodenalis among 396 specimens from children in a welfare institute in Shanghai, China.
| Sampling Time | No. of specimens | No. positive for Cryptosporidium (%) | Species/ subtype (No.) | No. positive for G. duodenalis (%) | Subtype at 3 genetic loci |
MLG Type |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tpi | bg | gdh | AII-1 | AII-8 | AII-13 | ||||||
| December 2011 | 207 | 24 (11.6) | C. hominis (24)/IaA14R4 (15) | 100 (48.3) | A2 (92) | A2 (47)/A3 (34)/A8 (7) | A2 (81) | 42 | 30 | 4 | |
| June 2012 | 78 | 7 (9.0) | C. hominis (7)/IaA14R4 (7) | 28 (35.9) | A2 (28) | A2 (21) | A2 (19) | 18 | – | – | |
| September 2013 | 111 | 8 (7.2) | C. hominis (8)/IaA14R4 (4) | 33 (29.7) | A2 (33) | A2 (25)/A3 (4) | A2 (28) | 23 | 3 | – | |
| Total | 396 | 39 (9.9) | C. hominis (39)/IaA14R4 (26) | 161 (40.7) | A2 (153) | A2 (93)/A3 (38)/A8 (7) | A2 (128) | 83 | 33 | 4 | |