| identifying wildlife reservoirs of neglected taeniid tapeworms: non-invasive diagnosis of endemic taenia serialis infection in a wild primate population. | despite the global distribution and public health consequences of taenia tapeworms, the life cycles of taeniids infecting wildlife hosts remain largely undescribed. the larval stage of taenia serialis commonly parasitizes rodents and lagomorphs, but has been reported in a wide range of hosts that includes geladas (theropithecus gelada), primates endemic to ethiopia. geladas exhibit protuberant larval cysts indicative of advanced t. serialis infection that are associated with high mortality. howe ... | 2017 | 28704366 |
| high mortality associated with tapeworm parasitism in geladas (theropithecus gelada) in the simien mountains national park, ethiopia. | despite increasing appreciation for parasitism as an important component of primate ecology and evolution, surprisingly few studies have demonstrated the costs of helminth parasitism in primates. detecting parasite-related costs in primates is particularly difficult because it requires detailed, long-term data on individual host reproductive success, survival, and parasitism. the identification of the larval tapeworm taenia serialis in geladas under intensive long-term study in the ethiopian hig ... | 2017 | 28783206 |
| molecular identification of taenia serialis coenurosis in a wild ethiopian gelada (theropithecus gelada). | since morphological identification of a larval taeniid in geladas (theropithecus gelada) has produced inconsistent results, genetic information is pivotal for species identification. nuclear and mitochondrial dna from a coenurus in a wild gelada were compared to published sequences from multiple taeniid species, confirming the identification of this parasite as taenia serialis. a demographic analysis finds age to be a strong predictor of coenuri. tapeworms rarely employ primates as intermediate ... | 2013 | 24050944 |
| fitness impacts of tapeworm parasitism on wild gelada monkeys at guassa, ethiopia. | parasitism is expected to impact host morbidity or mortality, although the fitness costs of parasitism have rarely been quantified for wildlife hosts. tapeworms in the genus taenia exploit a variety of vertebrates, including livestock, humans, and geladas (theropithecus gelada), monkeys endemic to the alpine grasslands of ethiopia. despite taenia's adverse societal and economic impacts, we know little about the prevalence of disease associated with taenia infection in wildlife or the impacts of ... | 2015 | 25716944 |