Enterocytozoon bieneusi

Jian, Yingna, Zhang, Xueyong, Wang, Guanghua, Wang, Geping, Li, Xiuping, Ma, Liqing, Liang, Qin, Li, Chenglin & Zhang, Yong, 2023, First report on the molecular detection of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in livestock and wildlife around Qinghai Lake in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau area, China, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 21, pp. 110-115 : 111

3.1. Prevalence of E. bieneusi

PCR detection based on the ITS gene revealed that the overall infection rate was 2.77% (23/829) for E. bieneusi ( Table 1). Furthermore, from the five different hosts species, the Tibetan sheep with 9.09% (10/110) had the highest infection rate, followed by yaks with 3.91% (5/128), wild birds with 2.20% (5/227), wild blue sheep with 1.04% (1/ 96) and Przewalski’ s gazelle with 0.75% (2/268) ( Table 1).

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