[Absence of plasmodial infection among wild monkeys in Northern Senegal?].
Eighty-two wild monkeys belonging to the two species Chlorocebus aethiops and Erythrocebus patas were collected in the northern part of Senegal, West Africa. Thick blood smears were performed and Giemsa stained. Slides were microscopically examined with a sensitivity of the method estimated at 2 parasites per mm3 of blood. No blood parasites were observed. This negative result is in line with previous studies which never showed evidences of malaria parasites in monkeys from African savannahs. This intriguing absence is underlined.
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