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| Milozzi,Carola; Bruno,Gabriela; Cundom,Elisa; Mudry,Marta D; Navone,Graciela T. |
| Endoparasitic infections are common in nonhuman primates and important factors in regulating their natural populations. Primates are particularly vulnerable to the infections of directly transmitted parasites because they often live in close social groups that facilitate their transmission. The main objective of this study was to provide baseline data on gastrointestinal parasites of semi captive and wild howler monkeys Alouatta caraya troops from Argentina. We collected 110 fecal samples from 38 howler monkeys from four troops, two of them kept in semi-captivity at the CRMAN, Córdoba, and two wild troops from Las Lomas, Corrientes. We identified six species of parasites: four Protozoa, Giardia lamblia, Blastocystis hominis, Eimeria sp. and Entamoeba coli;... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Alouatta caraya; Argentina; Helminths; Protozoa. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0327-93832012000200006 |
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