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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1(20), p. 109-113, 2014

DOI: 10.3201/eid2001.131191

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Fatal Metacestode Infection in Bornean Orangutan Caused by UnknownVersteriaSpecies

Journal article published in 2014 by Tony L. Goldberg, Annette Gendron-Fitzpatrick, Kathleen M. Deering, Roberta S. Wallace, Victoria L. Clyde, Michael Lauck, Gail E. Rosen, Andrew J. Bennett, Ellis C. Greiner, David H. O’Connor ORCID
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Abstract

A captive juvenile Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) died from an unknown disseminated parasitic infection. Deep sequencing of DNA from infected tissues, followed by gene-specific PCR and sequencing, revealed a divergent species within the newly proposed genus Versteria (Cestoda: Taeniidae). Versteria may represent a previously unrecognized risk to primate health.