title: High incidence of dystokia in the casiragua (Proechimys guairae).
abstract: Dystokia caused the deaths of 8 casiraguas out of a total of 25 adult females examined post mortem from a small colony of this rodent on exhibition at the London Zoo.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D004420:Dystocia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D011247:Pregnancy; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012377:Rodentia