YERSINIA-PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN A GROUP OF MACACA-FASCICULARIS
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 177 (9) , 818-819
Abstract
Diarrheal disease associated with abortions and stillbirths occurred in a group of 42 M. fascicularis. The group was composed of wild-caught adults and their colony-born offspring housed in a half-acre cage. Adult females (13) and 1 infant male were affected. All 14 monkeys had diarrhea and all 9 pregnant females aborted or had a stillbirth. Y. pseudotuberculosis was isolated from 7 animals. Y. enterocolitica was isolated from 1 monkey and Shigella flexneri type IV was isolated from 5 monkeys. One adult female had a mixed infection of Y. pseudotuberculosis and S. flexneri. Every pregnant monkey from which Y. pseudotuberculosis was isolated aborted or had a stillbirth. Five animals died and Y. pseudotuberculosis was the only pathogen isolated from these 5 monkeys.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: