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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Li N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784403 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parasitology research 20150212 5
Cyclospora spp. in nonhuman primates are most closely related to Cyclospora cayetanensis, an emerging human pathogen causing outbreaks of cyclosporiasis in North America. Studies thus far indicate the possible existence of host specificity in Cyclospora spp. In this study, 411 fecal specimens from free-range rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were collected and examined for Cyclospora by sequence analysis of the small subunit rRNA gene. A novel Cyclospora species was identified in 28 (6.8%) specime ...[more]