Occurrence of Dipetalonema gracile in a wild population of woolly monkey Lagothrix poeppiigii in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon

Abstract Dipetalonema gracile (Rudolphi, 1809) (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) is one of six species of cavities filarial parasites of Neotropical non-human primates. The present study recorded the occurrence of D. gracile, provides morphological and morphometric data and extends the geographical distr...

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Main Authors: David Fernandez Conga, Pedro Mayor, Adriano Penha Furtado, Elane Guerreiro Giese, Jeannie Nascimento dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria 2018-05-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-29612018005005101&lng=en&tlng=en