The presence of Cryptosporidium oocysts in stools of clinically diarrhoeic and normal nonhuman primates in Kenya

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-147

  Muriuki, S M K ^a   Farah, I O ^a   Kagwiria, R M ^a   Chai, D C ^a   Njamunge, G ^a   Suleman, M ^a   Olobo, J O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium spp.; Epidemiology; Kenya; Olive baboon; Protozoa; Vervet monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; KENYA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; STAINING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; FECES; KENYA; PAPIO; PRIMATE DISEASES; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030735267     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(97)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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