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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 7(1), 1958, pp. 90-94
Copyright © 1958 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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The Pathology and Pathogenesis of Fatal Infections Due to an Acanthocephalid Parasite of Marmoset Monkeys

Michael J. Takos1 AND Lyell J. Thomas
Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone and Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana

Four of ten squirrel-marmosets died as a result of infection by an acanthocephalid parasite, Prosthenorchis elegans. Death followed peritonitis caused by perforation of the bowel. Evidence is presented indicating that the process of perforation was a direct result of secondary bacterial infection rather than of the action of the acanthocephalid parasites. These spiny-headed worms produced chiefly mechanical damage.


1 Current address, Department of Health, Miami 35, Florida.






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