Parasitic zoonoses of Macaca fuscata in the conditions of the Moscow Zoo and their epizootological and epidemiological importance

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PARASITIC ZOONOSES OF MACACA FUSCATA IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE MOSCOW ZOO AND THEIR EPIZOOTOLOGICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE

Pasechnik V.E.
All-Russian K.I. Skryabin Scientific Research Institute of Fundamental and Applied Parasitology of Animals and Plants.

Summary

As a result of the coproovoscopic examination of 24 monkeys and macroscopic preparation from 1 monkey (M. fuscata) it has been revealed that they are infected by two causative agents of zoonose – Trichuris spp. and Strongyloides stercoralis with infection extensity values of 83,3-100% and 50-75% respectively. For the first time one records Cryptosporidium muris (=parvum) with infection extensity of 25-41,6% with single oocysts in 1 g of feaces. 


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