Enzootic simian piroplasm (Entopolypoides macaci) in wild-caught Kenyan non-human primates

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 329-336

  Jeneby, M M ^a,b   Ngeiywa, M ^b   Yole, D S ^a   Mwenda, J M ^a   Suleman, M A ^a,c   Carlson, H E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c Department of Neuroscience   (Sweden)

Author keywords

C. mitis; Cercopithecus aethiops; Entopolypoides macaci; Kenya; Papio cynocephalus anubis; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; BLOOD SMEAR; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENTOPOLYPOIDES MACACI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HAPLORHINI; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KENYA; LIVER; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; PAPIO; PARASITEMIA; PIROPLASMIDA; PREVALENCE; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; PAPIO; PAPIO ANUBIS; PRIMATES; SIMIAE;

EID: 55449110426     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2008.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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