Overt fatal and chronic subclinical Encephalitozoon cuniculi microsporidiosis in a colony of captive emperor tamarins (Saguinus imperator)

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-119

  Guscetti, Franco ^a   Mathis, A ^a   Hatt, J M ^a   Deplazes, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Histopathology; Immunohistochemistry; Isolation; Microsporidia; Polymerace chain reaction; Serology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL DEATH; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUROPE; FATALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; MICROSPORIDIA; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR;

EID: 0038147404     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0684.2003.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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