Human Presence Increases Parasitic Load in Endangered Lion-Tailed Macaques (Macaca silenus) in Its Fragmented Rainforest Habitats in Southern India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hussain, Shaik ^a   Ram, Muthuvarmadam Subramanian ^a   Kumar, Ajith ^b   Shivaji, Sisinthy ^a   Umapathy, Govindhaswamy ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b Wildlife Conserv Society   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESTODE; FECES ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; INDIA; LARVA; LIVESTOCK; MACACA; MACACA SILENUS; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; RAIN FOREST; TAXON; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MACACA; MONKEY DISEASES; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITES; TREES;

EID: 84878087673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063685     Document Type: Article

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