Kobayashi R, Sakakibara I, Furuta T, Kikuchi T, Yoshikawa Y
Cooperation for Production and Research on Laboratory Primates, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Ibaraki, Japan.
Exp Anim. 1999 Jan;48(1):55-7. doi: 10.1538/expanim.48.55.
P. carinii infection in red-bellied tamarins (Saguinus labiatus), born and maintained in a laboratory breeding colony, was examined by histopathologic examination postmortem. P. carinii cysts were detected in 6 of 10 red-bellied tamarins examined, by using Grocott's, toluidine blue O and immunostaining with avidin-biotin complex using antisera for rat-, simian-, and human-P. carinii. The results obtained from the present studies imply that P. carinii may be an important pathogen in this species.
