A longitudinal study on the occurrence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in dogs during their first year of life

Table 1 Prevalences of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in dogs in different age groups

Age category (months)	Total number of samples	*Cryptosporidium* positive samples		*Giardia* positive samples
		Number (%)	95% CI	Number (%)	95% CI
1^a	40	1 (2.5)	<0.01–14.2	2 (5.0)	0.6–17.5
2^a	35	8 (22.9)	11.9–39.4	0 (0.0)	0.0–11.9
3	264	57 (21.6)^b	17.1–27.0	23 (8.7)	5.8–12.8
4	249	56 (22.5)^c	17.7–28.1	15 (6.0)	3.6–9.8
6	216	28 (13.0)^b,c,d	9.1–18.2	17 (7.9)	4.9–12.3
12	158	8 (5.1)^b,c,d	2.5–9.9	18 (11.4)	7.3–17.4

^a Pooled samples from litter
^b,c,d, Variables with the same superscript are significantly different from each other. Differences were considered statistically significant if p < 0.05.

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