Staphylococcal meningoencephalitis, nematodiasis, and typhlocolitis in a squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 377-381

  Garcia A ^a   Nambiar, P R ^a   Marini, R P ^a   Fox, J G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Nematodes; Non human primate; Septicemia; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BACITRACIN; CEFALOTIN; CIMETIDINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIAZEPAM; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; GENTAMICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; OXACILLIN; PENTOBARBITAL; VANCOMYCIN;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MONKEY DISEASE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; SEPTICEMIA; SQUIRREL MONKEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TYPHLOCOLITIS; UREMIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLITIS; ENTEROBIUS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; SAIMIRI; SECERNENTEA INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRONGYLOIDES; TYPHLITIS;

NEMATODA; POSIBACTERIA; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 70149109365     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2009.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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