Disseminated encephalitozoonosis in captive, juvenile, cotton-top (Saguinus oedipus) and neonatal emperor (Saguinus imperator) tamarins in North America

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 438-446

  Juan Salles C ^a,g   Garner, M M ^b   Didier, E S ^c   Serrato, S ^a   Acevedo, L D ^a   Ramos Vara, J A ^d   Nordhausen, R W ^e   Bowers, L C ^c   Paras A ^f  

^a ConZOOlting Wildlife Management ^*  (Spain)

^b NORTHWEST ZOOPATH   (United States)

^c TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Africam Safari   (Mexico)

^g ConZOOlting Wildlife Management ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Hepatitis; Microsporidiosis; Nephritis; New World primate; Polymerase chain reaction; Tamarin

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIVER; MALE; MONKEY DISEASE; NEWBORN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZOO ANIMAL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MONKEY DISEASES; NORTH AMERICA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAGUINUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CALLITRICHIDAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MICROSPORIDIA; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 33745998485     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 03009858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.43-4-438     Document Type: Article

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