Fatal Baylisascaris larva migrans in a colony of Japanese macaques kept by a safari-style zoo in Japan

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 716-719

  Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Une, Yumi ^b   Kawakami, Shigehisa ^c   Saito, Eriko ^c   Kamiya, Haruo ^a   Akao, Nobuaki ^d   Furuoka, Hidefumi ^e  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Research Center for Zoo Animals   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; ZOO;

ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BAYLISASCARIS; BAYLISASCARIS PROCYONIS; BAYLISASCARIS TRANSFUGA; BEAR; BRAIN; ENCAPSULATION; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPIDEMIC; EPILEPSY; FATALITY; JAPAN; LARVA; LARVA MIGRANS; LUNG; MACACA; MALE; NEMATODE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; PARALYSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; RACCOON; SEWAGE; ZOO; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ASCARIDOIDEA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CATS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOGS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GERBILLINAE; ILEUM; JAPAN; LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL; LUNG; MACACA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RACCOON DOGS; RACCOONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SWINE; URSIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BAYLISASCARIS; BAYLISASCARIS PROCYONIS; BAYLISASCARIS TRANSFUGA; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; MACACA FUSCATA FUSCATA; NEMATODA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 22244485092     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3374RN     Document Type: Article

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