Table 4 Prevalence of host-specific Bacteroidales marker genes from untreated surface water sources to household (HH) stored water.
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Wet season | Dry season | |||||||||||
Frequency (no. of positive samples/no. of tested samples) | ||||||||||||
Host-specific Bacteroidales | ||||||||||||
n = 44 n = 44 | ||||||||||||
Total n = 88 | ||||||||||||
Sampling site | Number of samples | BacHum | Cytb | Pig-2-Bac | BacCan | BacCow | BacHum | Cytb | Pig-2-Bac | BacCan | BacCow | |
Mutshindudi river downstream | 4 | 4 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (100%) | 4 (100%) | 2 (50 %) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (100%) | 3 (75%) | |
Mutshindudi river upstream | 4 | 4 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (100%) | 4 (100%) | 3 (75%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (50%) | 3 (75%) | |
HH* (container-stored water) | 36 | 8 (22.2%) | 16 (44.4%) | 0 (0%) | 11 (30.6%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (19.4%) | 9 (25%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (19.4%) | 0 (0%) | |
