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

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

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

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

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 +

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 +

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EE - Mikrobiologie, virologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA206%2F09%2F0927" target="_blank" >GA206/09/0927: Vliv zvýšeného kontaktu s člověkem na diverzitu a ekologii jednobuněčných parazitů afrických lidoopů</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

11

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

5

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

000327543500091

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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