Schistosoma mansoni infection in a natural population olive baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania

Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 621-627

  Muller Graf C D M ^a,d   Collins, D A ^b   Packer, C ^c   Woolhouse, M E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baboons; Epidemiology; Schistosoma mansoni; Spatial heterogeneity; Water contact

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TANZANIA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; PAPIO; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TANZANIA; WATER;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031426284     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097001698     Document Type: Article

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