VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA IN BONNET MACAQUES

• Non-human primates get infected by ingesting contaminated food, water cockroaches, unwashed vegetables, fruits, flies, faeces. The trophozoites and cysts may be identified by keeping them in normal saline (or) iodine solution.
• The organisms invade mucous membrane of colon and caecum and they may access into portal circulation, producing hepatic abscess.