Fatal ulcerative colitis in a western lowland gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 297-302

  Lankester, Felix ^a   Matz rensing K ^b   Kiyang, J ^a   Jensen, S A ^c   Weiss, S ^c   Leendertz, F H ^c  

^a Limbe Wildlife Centre   (Cameroon)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balantidium coli; Metronidazole; Paromomycin; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; MARBOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BALANTIDIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GORILLA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TROPHOZOITE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; APE DISEASES; BALANTIDIASIS; BALANTIDIUM; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FATAL OUTCOME; FECES; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BALANTIDIUM COLI; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 55449126144     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2008.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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