| leishmania amazonensis infections in oryzomys acritus and oryzomys nitidus from bolivia. | three of thirteen oryzomys acritus, emmons and patton 2005 (rodentia: muridae: sigmodontinae) and 3 of 17 oryzomys nitidus, thomas 1884, collected from noël kempff national park, bolivia, from 2002 to 2005, tested positive for leishmania (leishmania) amazonensis or l. (l.) mexicana and negative for leishmania (viannia) spp. using the polymerase chain reaction (pcr). based on previous records of l. (l.) amazonensis in humans, rodents, and sand flies from bolivia, and the geographic distributions ... | 2006 | 17172367 |
| visceral infection by porocephalus spp. (pentastomida) in neotropical wild mammals. | larval stages of pentastomids were collected from different organs of small mammals from the peruvian amazon. these parasitized mammals included: a western amazonian oryzomys (hylaeamys perenensis), an elegant oryzomys (euryoryzomys nitidus), a lowland paca (cuniculus paca), two kinkajous (potos flavus), two silvery woolly monkeys (lagothrix poeppigii) and a brown-mantled tamarin (leontocebus fuscicollis). pentastomids were found in the mesentery and parenchyma of the liver and lungs of these an ... | 2020 | 32238198 |