| prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in primate bushmeat and pets in cameroon. | to document the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in cameroonian monkeys and to assess the risk of transmission to humans, we sampled 125 primates belonging to 15 species, of which 78 had been captured for bushmeat in the wild, and 47 were pets kept in urban areas. seven nematode species, one trematode, one cestode and three protozoa were detected. eight different parasite species were found in cercopithecus nictitans and six in c. neglectus, c. pogonias and cercocebus agilis. helminths w ... | 2010 | 20970258 |