Prevalence of Cryptosporidium and other enteric parasites among wild non-human primates in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 322-329

  Ekanayake, Dilrukshi K ^b   Arulkanthan, Appudurai ^b   Horadagoda, Neil U ^b   Sanjeevani, G K Madura ^b   Kieft, Rudo ^c   Gunatilake, Sunil ^d   Dittus, Wolfgang P J ^a,e,f  

^a Association for the Conservation of Primate Diversity   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Smithsonian Field Camp   (Sri Lanka)

^e INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

^f SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALANTIDIUM; CHILOMASTIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTEROBIUS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; IODAMOEBA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SRI LANKA; STRONGYLOIDES; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACACA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREE; WILD ANIMAL;

BALANTIDIUM; CHILOMASTIX; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTEROBIUS; IODAMOEBA; MACACA; MACACA SINICA; PRIMATES; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLOIDES; TRACHYPITHECUS VETULUS;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SRI LANKA; TREES;

EID: 33645809957     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.322     Document Type: Article

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