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| Title: | Tuberculosis in mandrills at the Lisbon zoo |
| Authors: | Amado, Alice
Albuquerque, Teresa
Duarte, Elsa
Gonçalves, António
Botelho, Ana
Fernandes, Teresa
Bernardino, Rui
Lapão, Narciso |
| Keywords: | Tuberculosis
Zoo |
| Issue Date: | 7-Apr-2010 |
| Abstract: | We would like to report two tuberculosis
cases in a group of 10 mandrill
baboons (Mandrillus sphinx) at the
Lisbon zoo. In early 2006, a 16-year-old
female, brought in from France in 1998,
started to show signs of apathy, coughing
and weight loss. Identical clinical signs
were observed shortly after, in its threeyear-old daughter.Tuberculosis in zoo animals is uncommon
in Portugal. This case reinforces the
need for continuous veterinary surveillance
of zoo animals as they could act as
reservoirs for human pathogens. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1950 |
| Type: | article |
| Appears in Collections: | MVT - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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