Enterocytozoon bieneusi, I. Desp., Le Charpentier, Galian, F. Bernard, Cochand-Priollet, Lavergne, Ravisse & Modigliani, 1985

Guo, Yaqiong, Li, Na, Feng, Yaoyu & Xiao, Lihua, 2021, Zoonotic parasites in farmed exotic animals in China: Implications to public health, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 14, pp. 241-247 : 243

4. Enterocytozoon bieneusi in farmed exotic animals

The transmission of E. bieneusi in farmed exotic animals in China has been examined in numerous studies. E. bieneusi was commonly detected in farmed fur animals in northern China and bamboo rats and macaque monkeys in southern China ( Table 3). The reported infection rates were mostly above 10%. This was especially the case with macaque monkeys ( Table 3). Unlike the case with Cryptosporidium spp. and G. duodenalis , there were no consistent age-associated differences in infection rates of E. bieneusi , which was detected at high frequency in all age groups of animals sampled in most studies ( Chen et al., 2019b; Ma et al., 2020a, 2020b; Yang et al., 2015; Ye et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016b, 2018). Crab-eating macaques with diarrhea were reported to have higher infections rates than those with normal stools ( Chen et al., 2019b).