Pneumocystis cariniiinfections in zoo animals

✍ Scribed by F. G. Poelma

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 662 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-1955
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00383668

✦ Synopsis

Pneumocystis carinii was found to be present in the lungs of twenty-three zoo animals in the Netherlands. The following species were represented: red kangaroo, common tree shrew, Senegal-Galago, Demidoff's-Galago, brown howler monkey, woolly monkey, long-haired spider monkey, white-eared marmoset, chimpanzee, three-toed sloth, palm squirrel, red panda, fennec fox, tree hyrax and large-toothed hyrax.