Discrepancies in the occurrence of Balantidium coli between wild and captive African great apes

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1139-1144

  Pomajbíková, Kateřina ^a   Petrželková, Klára J ^a,b,c   Profousová, Ilona ^a,b   Petrášáov, Jana ^a   Modrý, David ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Liberec Zoo   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; IODINE; THIOMERSAL;

CAPTIVITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; FECES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN; SAMPLING; STARCH; WILD POPULATION;

APE; ARTICLE; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CHIMPANZEE; FECES ANALYSIS; GORILLA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROTOZOON; SEDIMENTATION; TROPHOZOITE; WILD ANIMAL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; APE DISEASES; BALANTIDIASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; EUROPE; FECES; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; STARCH;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CILIOPHORA; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN; RATTUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 78650446190     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2433.1     Document Type: Article

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