Molecular evidence for sustained transmission of zoonotic Ascaris suum among zoo chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 171, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 273-276

  Nejsum, Peter ^a   Bertelsen, Mads Frost ^a,b   Betson, Martha ^c   Stothard, J Russell ^c   Murrell, K Darwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CENTER FOR ZOO AND WILD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Denmark)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascaris; Chimpanzees; Persistent transmission; Pigs; Zoo; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DNA; FENBENDAZOLE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MOXIDECTIN;

APE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS SUUM; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE; WORM EGG; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; APE DISEASES; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS SUUM; FECES; HUMANS; LARVA; OVUM; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITE EGG COUNT;

ASCARIS; ASCARIS SUUM; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; SUIDAE;

EID: 77954624057     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.03.030     Document Type: Article

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