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Table 1 Infection rate and loading of Sarcocystis species in domestic sheep

From: Sarcocystis species in wild and domestic sheep (Ovis ammon and Ovis aries) from China

Batch number

Locationa

City

Sample received date

No. of samples

No. of positives

Infection rate (%)

Density (cysts/cm2)

1

I

Zhengzhou

1 Mar 2014

155 hearts

20

12.90

6.35

2

II

Luoyang

18 Oct 2015

32 hearts

10

31.25

22.53

3

III

Xinxiang

20 Nov 2016

10 hearts

0

-

-

4

IV (n=254)

Jiaozuo

9 Nov 2015

70 hearts

62

93.70

(238/254)

26.96

5

25 Nov 2016

58 hearts

58

18.73

6

16 Oct 2017

62 hearts

55

19.73

7

19 Oct 2017

64 hearts

63

22.65

9

V (n=82)

Zhumadian

8 Oct 2015

15 hearts

3

10.98

(9/82)

0.56

10

30 Nov 2015

36 hearts

3

12.44

11

1 Dec 2015

20 hearts

2

0.33

12

7 Dec 2015

11 hearts

1

0.33

13

VI

Xinyang

8 Jul 2015

3 hearts

0

-

-

14

VII

Hami

4 Jan 2016

102 hearts

58

56.86

6.60

15

Total

  

638 hearts

335

52.51

18.07

  1. aSampling areas in Fig. 1.