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A Note on a Species of Bertiella from the Dog Faced Baboon (Papio doguera) in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

M. C. Round
Affiliation:
Veterinary Research Laboratory, Kabete, Kenya

Extract

Buckley and Fairley (1950) working in England found segments of a species of Bertiella passed by an eight year old girl who had lived in Kenya for 14 months during 1946–47. Since only the terminal segments were available for study, a specific identification could not be made, though the authors thought that it was probably Bertiella studeri (Blanchard, 1891). Nelson (1963) has found that baboons in Kenya are commonly infected with species of Bertiella.

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Research Papers
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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