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Table 2 Prevalence of Giardia intestinalis in raccoon dogs in Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shandong and Hebei Provinces, northern China

From: Occurrence and multilocus genotyping of Giardia intestinalis assemblage C and D in farmed raccoon dogs, Nyctereutes procyonoides, in China

Factor

Category

Number of positive/tested/

Prevalence (%) (95 % CI)

P-value

OR (95 % CI)

Region

Hebei Province

1/54

1.85 (0.00–5.45)

0.0198

Reference

Heilongjiang Province

3/40

7.50 (0.00–15.66)

4.30 (0.43–42.94)

Jilin Province

7/110

6.36 (1.80–10.93)

3.60 (0.43–30.05)

Liaoning Province

11/72

15.28 (6.97–23.59)

9.56 (1.19–76.50)

Shandong Province

0/29

0 (−)

Gender

Female

9/150

6.00 (2.20–9.80)

0.4205

Reference

Male

13/155

8.39 (4.02–12.75)

1.43 (0.59–3.46)

Age

> 3 months

16/225

7.11 (3.75–10.47)

0.9081

Reference

≤ 3 months

6/80

7.50 (1.73–13.27)

1.06 (0.40–2.81)

Season

Autumn

6/171

3.51 (0.75–6.27)

0.0049

Reference

Spring

1/24

4.17 (0.00–12.16)

1.20 (0.14–10.38)

Summer

15/110

13.64 (7.22–20.05)

4.34 (1.63–11.57)

Total

 

22/305

7.21 (4.31–10.12)