Prevalence of shigellosis and other enteric pathogens in a zoologic collection of primates.

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Macaca silenus 100%
• Atelinae 81%
• Nomascus leucogenys 66%
• Bacillary Dysentery 63%
• Macaca sylvana 62%
• Colobus 60%
• Cercocebus 56%
• Hylobates 48%
• Feces 47%
• Gorilla gorilla 45%
• Primates 43%
• Shigella flexneri 42%
• Indonesia 36%
• Nomascus concolor 35%
• Lemuridae 30%
• Hylobatidae 29%
• Pongo pygmaeus 27%
• Lemur 25%
• Proctoscopy 25%
• Pongo 24%
• Recreational Parks 23%
• Shigella sonnei 23%
• Syndactyly 21%
• Macaca 17%
• Gingiva 17%
• Rectum 15%
• Communicable Diseases 13%
• Physical Examination 13%
• Epidemiologic Studies 12%
• Parasites 12%
• Bacteria 10%
• Biopsy 9%

Agriculture & Biology

• shigellosis 73%
• Hylobatidae 62%
• Primates 41%
• Macaca silenus 39%
• Cercocebus 34%
• Colobus 33%
• Gorilla gorilla 32%
• Shigella flexneri 31%
• Pongo pygmaeus 31%
• monkeys 31%
• feces 27%
• pathogens 27%
• Macaca 25%
• proctoscopy 24%
• Araneae 21%
• Indonesia 21%
• Ateles 18%
• Hylobates 17%
• Shigella sonnei 16%
• gingiva 16%
• Lemur 16%
• fecal examination 15%
• Lemuridae 15%
• clinical examination 13%
• rectum 13%
• Felidae 13%
• zoos 12%
• epidemiological studies 11%
• infectious diseases 11%
• biopsy 11%
• lowlands 10%
• parasites 7%
• bacteria 6%