Volume 18, Number 5—May 2012
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Pigs as Natural Hosts of Dientamoeba fragilis Genotypes Found in Humans
Simone M. Cacciò
, Anna Rosa Sannella, Elisabetta Manuali, Fabio Tosini, Marco Sensi, Daniele Crotti, and Edoardo Pozio
, Anna Rosa Sannella, Elisabetta Manuali, Fabio Tosini, Marco Sensi, Daniele Crotti, and Edoardo Pozio
Table 1
Prevalence of Dientamoeba fragilis protozoa in pig and human fecal samples after microscopy and Giemsa staining, Italy, 2010–2011
| Farm | Herd type | No. samples positive/no. tested* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piglet | Fattening pig | Sow | Human | ||
| 1 | Weaner production | 10/10 | NA | 1/10 | NA |
| 2 | Farrow-to-finish | 9/10 | NA | 3/10 | 0/4 |
| 3 | Farrow-to-finish | 10/10 | 7/10 | 0/10 | 2/8 |
| 4 | Farrow-to-finish | 1/10 | NA | 0/10 | NA |
| 5 | Farrow-to-finish | 4/10 | NA | 0/10 | 0/2 |
| 6 | Farrow-to-finish | 4/10 | NA | 1/10 | NA |
| 7 | Fattening | NA | NA | 3/4 | NA |
| 8 | Fattening | 10/10 | NA | NA | 2/3 |
| 9 | Farrow-to-finish | 4/4 | 4/4 | NA | 0/4 |
| Total | 52/74 | 11/14 | 8/64 | 4/21 | |
*NA, sample not available.
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