Fig 1.
Geographical location of the study region where fecal samples from dogs and cats were collected.
Table 1.
Percentage information on sex, age, and presence or absence of diarrhea in the population of dogs and cats (n = 119) in the neighborhood of Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fig 2.
Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts from fecal samples of dogs and cats in the Campo Grande neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A, B, and C: oocysts observed under bright-field microscope; D: oocysts observed under phase-contrast microscope.
Table 2.
Prevalence of gastrointestinal infections in fecal samples from 119 dogs and cats in the neighborhood of Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Table 3.
Cryptosporidium spp. species and C. parvum subtype parasitizing the dogs and cats assessed according to sex, age, and presence and absence of diarrhea and the numbers of their respective sequences.
Fig 3.
Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree of Cryptosporidium parvum based on GP60 partial gene using sequences obtained in the study and retrieved from Genbank.
The first number associated with each node represents the ML bootstrap value followed by the Bayesian posterior probabilities. The blue rectangle represents C. parvum positive samples from this study.