Preliminary Insights into the Impact of Dietary Starch on the Ciliate, Neobalantidium coli, in Captive Chimpanzees

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F13%3A00422457" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/13:00422457 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/13:00422457 RIV/62157124:16170/13:43871933 RIV/00216224:14310/13:00093994

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081374" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081374</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081374" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0081374</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preliminary Insights into the Impact of Dietary Starch on the Ciliate, Neobalantidium coli, in Captive Chimpanzees

Original language description

Infections caused by the intestinal ciliate Neobalantidium coli are asymptomatic in most hosts. In humans and captive African great apes clinical infections occasionally occur, manifested mainly by dysentery; however, factors responsible for developmentof clinical balantidiasis have not been fully clarified. We studied the effect of dietary starch on the intensities of infection by N. coli in two groups of captive chimpanzees. Adult chimpanzees infected by N. coli from the Hodonin Zoo and from the BrnoZoo, Czech Republic, were fed with a high starch diet (HSD) (average 14.7% of starch) for 14 days, followed by a five-day transition period and subsequently with a period of low starch diet (LoSD) (average 0.1% of starch) for another 14 days. We collected fecal samples during the last seven days of HSD and LoSD and fixed them in 10% formalin. We quantified trophozoites of N. coli using the FLOTAC method. The numbers of N. coli trophozoites were higher during the HSD (mean +/- SD: 49.0 +

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EE - Microbiology, virology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA206%2F09%2F0927" target="_blank" >GA206/09/0927: Impact of increased contact with humans on diversity and ecology of protozoan parasites of African great apes</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000327543500091

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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