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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 77(3), 2007, pp. 504-506
Copyright © 2007 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Echinococcus multilocularis Infection of Several Old World Monkey Species in a Breeding Enclosure

Dennis Tappe*, Klaus Brehm, Matthias Frosch, Anja Blankenburg, Annette Schrod, Franz-Josef Kaup, AND Kerstin Mätz-Rensing
Consiliary Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Germany; German Primate Center, Department of Infectious Pathology, Göttingen, Germany

Echinococcus multilocularis, the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis, is spreading geographically in Europe, and prevalence rates in foxes, the final host, are increasing. Concomitantly, the rate of newly diagnosed human infections has already doubled in Germany. We report a cluster of alveolar echinococcosis in 24 animals of different Old World monkey species (15 cynomolgus monkeys, 5 rhesus monkeys, and 4 lion-tailed macaques) in northern Germany. The cluster described is the largest ever recorded in a single center. Cynomolgus monkeys were very susceptible and constituted the monkey species at highest risk, indicating that this species could act as a sentinel animal for the transmission of alveolar echinococcosis in zoological gardens or similar institutions.

Received May 3, 2007. Accepted for publication May 20, 2007.

Acknowledgment: The authors thank Mechthild Schulze for carrying out the serology tests.

* Address correspondence to Dennis Tappe, Josef-Schneider-Str. 2, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. E-mail: dtappe{at}hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de

Authors’ addresses: Dennis Tappe, Klaus Brehm, and Matthias Frosch, Consiliary Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 2, 97080 Würzburg, Germany, Telephone: +49-931-201-46036, Fax: +49-931-201-46445, E-mail: dtappe{at}hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de. Anja Blankenburg, Annette Schrod, Franz-Josef Kaup, and Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, German Primate Center, Department of Infectious Pathology, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.






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