Parasites of free-ranging black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) from belize and Mexico

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1089-1097

  Vitazkova, Sylvia K ^a,b   Wade, Susan E ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alouatta pigra; Controrchis bilio; Giardia sp.; Parasites; Philus; Trypanoxyuris minutus

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; FECES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN;

ALOUATTA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BELIZE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTAMOEBA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GENETICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEXICO; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BELIZE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ECOSYSTEM; ENTAMOEBA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MEXICO; NEMATODA; PLATYHELMINTHS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZOONOSES;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; ALOUATTA PIGRA; ANIMALIA; DICROCOELIIDAE; DICROCOELIUM; ENTAMOEBA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA SP.; HEXAMITIDAE; OXYURIDAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33751050851     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20309     Document Type: Article

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