Microbial infections and parasitic infestations are common in both wild caught and domestically produced baboons in the United States today. Many of these infectious agents cause clinical disease while others may exist as asymptomatic infections, surfacing only when transportation, experimentation, changes in environment, or other stressors compromise the baboon’s normal host defenses. This chapter summarizes some of the bacterial, parasitic, and viral diseases that occur more frequently in the baboons; it does not completely review all organisms reported in the literature to infect baboons.
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Eberle, R., Blas-Machado, U., Wolf, R.F., White, G.L. (2009). Microbiology of Captive Baboons. In: VandeBerg, J.L., Williams-Blangero, S., Tardif, S.D. (eds) The Baboon in Biomedical Research. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75991-3_6
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