| molecular identification of oesophagostomum and trichuris eggs isolated from wild japanese macaques. | natural habitat fragmentation and reducing habitat quality have resulted in an increased appearance of japanese macaques, macaca fuscata (gray, 1870), in suburban areas in japan. to investigate the risk of zoonotic infections, a coprological survey of helminth eggs passed by wild japanese macaques was carried out in 2009 and 2010 in shiga prefecture, japan. microscopic examination found helminth eggs in high prevalence, and nucleotide sequencing of dna extracted from the eggs identified oesophag ... | 2012 | 22949756 |
| host age, sex, and reproductive seasonality affect nematode parasitism in wild japanese macaques. | parasites are characteristically aggregated within hosts, but identifying the mechanisms underlying such aggregation can be difficult in wildlife populations. we examined the influence of host age and sex over an annual cycle on the eggs per gram of feces (epg) of nematode parasites infecting wild japanese macaques (macaca fuscata yakui) on yakushima island. five species of nematode were recorded from 434 fecal samples collected from an age-structured group of 50 individually recognizable macaqu ... | 2010 | 20711744 |