| first detection of echinococcus multilocularis infection in two species of nonhuman primates raised in a zoo: a fatal case in cercopithecus diana and a strongly suspected case of spontaneous recovery in macaca nigra. | the causative parasite of alveolar echinococcosis, echinococcus multilocularis, maintains its life cycle between red foxes (vulpes vulples, the definitive hosts) and voles (the intermediate hosts) in hokkaido, japan. primates, including humans, and some other mammal species can be infected by the accidental ingestion of eggs in the feces of red foxes. in august 2011, a 6-year-old zoo-raised female diana monkey (cercopithecus diana) died from alveolar echinococcosis. e. multilocularis infection w ... | 2014 | 24780141 |