| cutaneous leishmaniasis of man due to leishmania (viannia) shawi lainson, de souza, póvoa, ishikawa & silveira, in pará state, brazil. | leishmania (viannia) shawi lainson, braga, de souza, póvoa, ishikawa & silveira, 1989, was originally recorded from monkeys (cebus apella and chiropotes satanas), sloths (choloepus didactylus and bradypus tridactylus) and coatis (nasua nasua) and the sandfly, lutzomyia whitmani. with a panel of leishmania specific monoclonal antibodies, it was found that 30.5% of the leishmania strains from patients, who had contracted cutaneous leishmaniasis in pará state, were similar, but not identical to l. ... | 1991 | 1822654 |
| primate community of the tropical rain forests of saracá-taqüera national forest, pará, brazil. | brazil is the richest country in the world in terms of primate species and the amazonian rain forest is one of the richest biomes containing 15 (ca. 90%) of the neotropical primate genera. although considered key elements in conservation strategies, there is only anecdotal information on primates for several protected areas within the region. here we present new data on the community composition of the primates in the saracá-taqüera national forest (429,600 ha), an actively mined, bauxite rich a ... | 2009 | 19967179 |
| environmental perturbations can be detected through microwear texture analysis in two platyrrhine species from brazilian amazonia. | recent dental microwear studies have shown that fossil species differ from one another in texture attributes-both in terms of central tendency and dispersion. most comparative studies used to interpret these results have relied on poorly provenienced museum samples that are not well-suited to consideration of within species variation in diet. here we present a study of two species of platyrrhine monkeys, alouatta belzebul (n = 60) and sapajus apella (n = 28) from pará state in the brazilian amaz ... | 2015 | 26348252 |
| edge effects in the primate community of the biological dynamics of forest fragments project, amazonas, brazil. | while much is known about abiotic and vegetative edge effects in tropical forests, considerably less is known about the impact of forest edges on large mammals. in this study, we examine edge effects in a primate community to determine: 1) the distance from the edge over which edge effects in primate density are detectable, 2) whether individual species exhibit edge effects in their density, and 3) whether biological characteristics can be used to predict primate presence in edge habitats. given ... | 2014 | 25130367 |
| mycoplasma sp. infection in captive marcgrave's capuchin monkeys (sapajus flavius). | three species of hemoplasmas are known to infect monkeys, 'candidatus mycoplasma kahanei', 'candidatus mycoplasma haemomacaque' and 'candidatus mycoplasma aoti'. marcgrave's capuchin monkey (sapajus flavius) is a critically endangered neotropical primate species of the brazilian atlantic forest, and thus, sustained efforts are needed to protect the health and well-being of these animals. this study has aimed to screen 12 captive s. flavius from the state of paraíba, northeastern brazil, for hemo ... | 2017 | 28504092 |