| callithrix penicillata as a nonhuman primate model for strongyloidiasis. | in order to better understand experimental strongyloidiasis in small new world primates, and to evaluate aspects of reinfection and immunosuppression induced by glucocorticoids, nine specimens of callithrix penicillata (primates: cebidae) were administered (by subcutaneous injection, sc) 3000 infective larvae of a strain of strongyloides venezuelensis (rhabditida: strongyloididae) that had been maintained in successive passages through akr/j mice since 1987. the mean prepatent period was 5.6 ± 0 ... | 2012 | 22388422 |