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. 2022 Mar 16;17:308–318. doi: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.03.007

Table 3.

Parasites detected in faecal samples from captive chimpanzees at Taronga Zoo, Australia.

Sample Giardia duodenalis
Troglodytella sp. Balantioides sp. Entamoeba sp.
RAT real-time PCR
C1 + + + +
C2 + +
C3 + + +
C4 + +
C5
C6 + +
C7* + +
C8 + +
C9 + +
C10 +
C11 + +
C12 + + +
C13 + + +
C14
C15 + + + +
C16 + +
C17 + + +
C18 + +
C19 +
C20 + +
C21 + +
C22 + +
C23
C24 + + +
C25 +
C26 + +

Note: * - additional pseudoparasite eggs (tapeworms) detected; RAT - Anigen Rapid Giardia AG Test Kit (BioNote, Seoul, South Korea); real-time PCR - TaqMan real-time PCR assay targets a 62-bp fragment of 18S rDNA of G. duodenalis (M54878) (Verweij et al., 2003).