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Yersinia enterocolitica serovar O:8 infection in breeding monkeys in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2005
Iwata Taketoshi, Une Yumi, Okatani Alexandre Tomomitsu, Kaneko Sei-Ichi, Namai Satoshi, Yoshida Shin-Ichiro, Horisaka Tomoko, Horikita Tetsuya, Nakadai Aya, Hayashidani Hideki
Abstract excerpt
In the period from December 2002 to January 2003, 5 of 50 squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) housed at a Zoological Garden in the Kanto region of Japan died following a few days' history of diarrhea. After this outbreak had ended in the squirrel monkeys, 1 of 2 dark-handed gibbons (Hylobates agilis) died in April of 2003, showing similar clinical signs. We examined the organs of 3 of the dead squirrel monkeys...
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