Subacute multisystemic toxoplasmosis in a captive black-and-gold howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) indicates therapy challenging.
Silvia Bahadian MoreiraAsheley Henrique Barbosa PereiraThalita de Abreu PissinattiIgor Falco ArrudaRaphael Rodrigues Miguel de AzevedoFrancine Bittencourt Schifflernull nullMaria Regina Reis AmendoeiraAndré Felipe Andrade Dos SantosAlcides PissinattiDaniel Guimarães UbialiPublished in: Journal of medical primatology (2022)
A 10-year-old black howler monkey presented with a 36-day subacute clinicopathological picture of fever, prostration, inappetence, intestinal hypomotility, and emaciation. Therapy was trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole with streptomycin. The liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and spleen presented lesions. Toxoplasma gondii isolation and PCR determined the diagnosis, and indirect fluorescent antibody tests confirmed an increase in antibody titers.