Endoparasite Infections in Pet and Zoo Birds in Italy

Table 3

Number of positive samples, prevalence, and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of intestinal parasites in pet and zoo birds.

Parasites	Pet birds (𝑛=63)			Zoo birds (𝑛=83)			Total (𝑛=146)
	No. positive	Prevalence	95% CI	No. positive	Prevalence	95% CI	No. positive	Prevalence	95% CI
Strongyles-Capillarids	0	—	—	13	15.7%	7.8–23.5%	13	8.9%	4.3–13.6%
Ascaridia	10	15.9%	6.8–24.9%	0	—	—	10	6.8%	2.7–10.9%
Strongyles	1	1.6%	0–4.7%	7	8.4%	2.5–14.4%	8	5.5%	1.8–9.2%
G. duodenalis Ass* A^#	1	4.3%	0–12.7%	3	5.7%	0–12.1%	4	5.3%	0.2–5.4%
Coccidia	4	6.3%	0.3–12.4%	2	2.4%	0–5.7%	6	4.1%	0.9–7.3%
Cryptosporidium ^#	0	—	—	3	5.7%	0–12.1%^#	3	4%	0–8.4%
Porrocaecum	0	—	—	4	4.8%	0.2–9.4%	4	2.7%	0.1–5.4%
Porrocaecum-Capillarids	0	—	—	3	3.6%	0–7.6%	3	2%	0–4.4%
Syngamus-Capillarids	1	1.6%	0–4.7%	0	—	—	1	0.7%	0–2%
Total	17	27%	16–37.9%	35	42.2%	31.5–62.8%	52	35.6%	27.8–43.4%

∗Assemblage
^#Values for G. duodenalis and Cryptosporidium were calculated based on analysis of samples from 23 pet birds, 52 zoo birds, and a total number of 75 birds.