Giardia duodenalis assemblages and Entamoeba species infecting non-human primates in an Italian zoological garden: Zoonotic potential and management traits

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Berrilli, Federica ^a   Prisco, Cristina ^a   Friedrich, Klaus G ^b   Di Cerbo, Pilar ^b   Di Cave, David ^a   De Liberato, Claudio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Fondazione Bioparco   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SAMPLING; ZOO ANIMAL; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HARTMANNI; EULEMUR MACACO; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; LEMUR CATTA; MANDRILLUS SPHINX; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; PROTOZOA; VARECIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE DISEASES; PRIMATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 80053908585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-199     Document Type: Article

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