Severe coenurosis caused by larvae of Taenia serialis in an olive baboon (Papio anubis) in Benin.

ABSTRACT: In March 2017, a captive male juvenile (ca. 6 months old) olive baboon (Papio anubis) was brought to a primate rescue center in Benin with multiple subcutaneous swellings of unknown aetiology. At the general inspection of the body, around 15 partially mobile masses of variable sizes were found in different locations across the body. Following two surgical procedures, several cyst-like structures were removed and placed either in 10% formalin or in absolute ethanol. The cysts had a typical coenurus-like morphology. Genomic DNA was extracted from one cyst using a commercially available kit. The molecular characterization was performed by PCR amplification and sequencing of a region of the nuclear ITS-2 rDNA and a fragment of the mitochondrial 12S rDNA gene, revealing its identity as <

SUBMITTER: Chanove E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506464 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature