title: Hemobartonellosis in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in a domestic breeding colony: case report and preliminary study.
abstract: Infection with Hemobartonella sp was diagnosed in a colony-born squirrel monkey with normocytic, normochromic anemia and pronounced punctate erythrocytic basophilic stippling on Wright's-Giemsa stained blood films. The diagnosis was confirmed using transmission electron microscopy. Two randomly selected colony-born squirrel monkeys were splenectomized in an effort to activate and detect possible latent hemobartonellosis . One monkey became parasitemic 12 days following splenectomy. The second monkey was inoculated on day 14 with 1 ml of whole blood from an infected, but nonparasitemic monkey and developed overt parasitemia 3 days later (day 17 following splenectomy). Infections in the latter two monkeys were confirmed using scanning electron microscopy.
mesh_terms: D000710:Anaplasmataceae / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000711:Anaplasmataceae Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000662:veterinary*; D000740:Anemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary; D000818:Animals; D002427:Cebidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D012453:Saimiri / Q000382:microbiology*