Chimpanzee pinworm, Enterobius anthropopitheci (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), maintained for more than twenty years in captive chimpanzees in Japan
| Autor: | Toshifumi Udono, Hideo Hasegawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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biology Oxyuridae Pan troglodytes Enterobius anthropopitheci Pongidae Zoology Captivity Enterobiasis biology.organism_classification Ape Diseases Japan biology.animal Fenbendazole medicine Animals Parasitology Primate Animals Zoo Female Enterobius Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics medicine.drug Mixed infection |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of parasitology. 93(4) |
| ISSN: | 0022-3395 |
| Popis: | The chimpanzee pinworm, Enterobius anthropopitheci (Gedoelst, 1916), was found in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, reared in Kumamoto Primate Research Park, Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho Co., Ltd., Kumamoto, Japan, in 2006. Because the chimpanzees in this institution originated from chimpanzees imported from Africa before 1984, it is considered that E. anthropopitheci infection has persisted for more than 20 yr in the chimpanzees. Analysis of pinworm specimens preserved in the institution revealed that transition of predominant pinworm species occurred, responding to the change of anthelmintics used for pinworm treatment. Present dominance of E. anthropopitheci is surmised to be caused by fenbendazole, which has been adopted from 2002. Scarcity of mixed infection with E. anthropopitheci and Enterobius vermicularis suggests interspecific competition between the pinworms. |
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