title: Mortality causes of the moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) in captivity.
abstract: From January 1987 to November 1990, 125 adult Saguinus mystax died at the CRCP. Enteritis/colitis (26%), hypoglycemia/cachexia (19%), and parasitic enteritis (13%) were the most common causes of death. Less common were purulent peritonitis (9%), lobular pneumonia (8%), and hemorrhagic gastroenterocolitis (6%). These results confirm the high frequency of gastroenteric lesions reported in Callitrichidae in captivity.
authors.affiliation: Center for Reproduction and Conservation of Nonhuman Primates, Instituto Veterinario de Investigaciones Tropicales y de Altura (IVITA), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Iquitos, Peru.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gozalo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Montoya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D002100:Cachexia / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary*; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D007443:Intussusception / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D010273:Parasitic Diseases, Animal; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D010568:Peru / Q000453:epidemiology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D012452:Saguinus