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Vet Mex 2007; 38 (3)

An outbreak of toxoplasmosis in a colony of captive squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)

Espinosa-Avilés D, Morales-Martínez MS

Language: English/Spanish
References: 11
Page: 365-369
PDF size: 117.46 Kb.


ABSTRACT

An outbreak of toxoplasmosis in a captive colony of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) caused an apparent 92% morbidity and 64% mortality. Diagnosis was achieved by histopathology and confi rmed by immunohistochemistry. Presumably, cockroaches acted as mechanical vectors of oocysts, and they were the source of infection. This report confi rms the high susceptibility of squirrel monkeys to toxoplasmosis.


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