Survey of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in lemurs from the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 741-743

  Rasambainarivo, Fidisoa T ^a,b   Gillespie, Thomas R ^b,c,d   Wright, Patricia C ^b,e   Arsenault, Julie ^a   Villeneuve, Alain ^a   Lair, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments at Centre ValBio   (Madagascar)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEMURIDAE; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CHEIROGALEIDAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; LEMUR; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; GIARDIA; HAPALEMUR; HAPALEMUR SIMUS; LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS RUFUS;

EID: 84879170327     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2012-10-264     Document Type: Article

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