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Gastrointestinal parasites in non-human primates in zoological institutions in France

Gastrointestinal parasites are frequently encountered in captive non-human primates and infestation may have severe consequences on the animal’s health status. Most of these parasites are also transmissible to humans. Nevertheless, little is known about the prevalence and monitoring modalities of ga...

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Autores principales: Vonfeld, Irène, Prenant, Thibaut, Polack, Bruno, Guillot, Jacques, Quintard, Benoît
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Publicado: EDP Sciences 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9487514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36125313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2022040
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author Vonfeld, Irène
Prenant, Thibaut
Polack, Bruno
Guillot, Jacques
Quintard, Benoît
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Polack, Bruno
Guillot, Jacques
Quintard, Benoît
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description Gastrointestinal parasites are frequently encountered in captive non-human primates and infestation may have severe consequences on the animal’s health status. Most of these parasites are also transmissible to humans. Nevertheless, little is known about the prevalence and monitoring modalities of gastrointestinal parasitoses in non-human primates housed in zoological institutions and there are currently no guidelines available for their detection and identification. The objective of this study was to identify the main gastrointestinal parasites that may be observed in non-human primates in zoological institutions in France, as well as to develop a decision-making tree to ease their identification. Twenty-four zoological institutions were surveyed, most of which performed fecal examinations routinely on their non-human primates (91.7%). Most institutions used flotation enrichment protocols to detect gastrointestinal parasites (95.2%) and nematodes were the most frequently encountered parasites (73.0%). A total of 252 fecal samples corresponding to 68 different non-human primate species from these institutions were analyzed using sedimentation and flotation protocols. Protozoa (47.3%) were found to be more frequent than helminths (15.6%). Furthermore, old-world monkeys exhibited a higher parasite load (93.6%) than any other non-human primate species category. Compiled data from fecal examinations allowed the development of a decision-making tree and diagnostic atlas to facilitate parasite diagnosis in captive non-human primates.
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spelling pubmed-94875142022-10-20 Gastrointestinal parasites in non-human primates in zoological institutions in France Vonfeld, Irène Prenant, Thibaut Polack, Bruno Guillot, Jacques Quintard, Benoît Parasite Research Article Gastrointestinal parasites are frequently encountered in captive non-human primates and infestation may have severe consequences on the animal’s health status. Most of these parasites are also transmissible to humans. Nevertheless, little is known about the prevalence and monitoring modalities of gastrointestinal parasitoses in non-human primates housed in zoological institutions and there are currently no guidelines available for their detection and identification. The objective of this study was to identify the main gastrointestinal parasites that may be observed in non-human primates in zoological institutions in France, as well as to develop a decision-making tree to ease their identification. Twenty-four zoological institutions were surveyed, most of which performed fecal examinations routinely on their non-human primates (91.7%). Most institutions used flotation enrichment protocols to detect gastrointestinal parasites (95.2%) and nematodes were the most frequently encountered parasites (73.0%). A total of 252 fecal samples corresponding to 68 different non-human primate species from these institutions were analyzed using sedimentation and flotation protocols. Protozoa (47.3%) were found to be more frequent than helminths (15.6%). Furthermore, old-world monkeys exhibited a higher parasite load (93.6%) than any other non-human primate species category. Compiled data from fecal examinations allowed the development of a decision-making tree and diagnostic atlas to facilitate parasite diagnosis in captive non-human primates. EDP Sciences 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9487514/ /pubmed/36125313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2022040 Text en © I. Vonfeld et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prenant, Thibaut
Polack, Bruno
Guillot, Jacques
Quintard, Benoît
Gastrointestinal parasites in non-human primates in zoological institutions in France
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9487514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36125313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2022040
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