Volume 18, Number 10—October 2012
Dispatch
Anthroponotic Enteric Parasites in Monkeys in Public Park, China
Jianbin Ye, Lihua Xiao, Jingbo Ma, Meijin Guo, Lili Liu, and Yaoyu Feng
Table
Anthroponotic enteric parasites in free-range rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and water samples in Qianling Park, Guiyang, China*
| Species, genotype, or subtype | GenBank accession no. |
Fecal specimens positive for organism
|
Water samples positive for organism, n = 23 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macaque Garden, n = 187 | Hongfu Temple, n = 150 | Tanquan Spring, n = 74 | |||
| Cryptosporidium | |||||
|
C. hominis |
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|
IaA13R7 |
EU095261 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
IaA13R8 |
JX000568† | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
|
IaA14R7 |
JX000569† | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
IdA20 |
EU095265 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
|
IeA11G3T3 |
DQ665689 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
|
IfA16G2 |
JX000570† | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Unknown‡ |
NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
|
C. parvum |
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|
IIcA5G3a |
AY738195 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
|
C. felis |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Subtotal (mean %; 95% CI)§ | 31/187 (16.6; 10.7–22.4) | 9/150 (6.0; 2.1–9.9) | 5/74 (6.8; 0.8–12.7) | 11/23 (47.8; 19.6–76.1) | |
| Giardia duodenalis | |||||
|
Assemblage A2 |
U57897 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Assemblage B |
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|
B1 |
AY368164 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
|
B2d |
JX000562† | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
|
B3d |
JX000563† | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
|
B4d |
JX000564† | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
B5d |
JX000565† | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
|
B6d |
JX000566† | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
B7d |
JX000567† | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
|
Unknown‡ |
NA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Subtotal (mean %; 95% CI)§ | 19/187 (10.2; 5.6–14.7) | 15/150 (10.0; 4.9–15.1) | 1/74 (1.4; 0–4.0) | 12/23 (52.2; 22.7–81.7) | |
|
Enterocytozoon bieneusi |
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|
Peru11 |
AY371286 | 46 | 21 | 2 | 4 |
|
WL15 |
AY237223 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
|
EbpC |
AY371279 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
|
Type IV |
AY371277 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
|
LW1d |
JX000571† | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
|
Macaque1¶ |
JX000572† | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
Macaque2¶ |
JX00057† | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Unknown‡ |
NA | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Subtotal (mean %; 95% CI)§ | 76/187 (40.6; 31.5–49.8) | 32/150 (21.3; 13.9–28.7) | 8/74 (10.8; 3.3–18.3) | 13/23 (56.5; 25.8–87.2) | |
*Values are number of positive samples unless otherwise indicated. NA, not applicable.
†From this study.
‡PCR positive but sequence unavailable.
§No. positive /no. tested (% positive; 95% CI).
¶New subtypes or genotypes identified during this study.
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