Acanthocyclops rhesus

Cleveland, Christopher A., Garrett, Kayla B., Cozad, Rebecca A., Williams, Brianna M., Murray, Maureen H. & Yabsley, Michael J., 2018, The wild world of Guinea Worms: A review of the genus Dracunculus in wildlife, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 7 (3), pp. 289-300 : 296

4.2.3. Rhesus macaques

A Rhesus macaque was experimentally exposed to 400 L3 of D. insignis via a stomach tube ( Beverly-Burton and Crichton, 1976). The primate was necropsied at 180 DPI and nine gravid female nematodes from the subcutaneous tissues and a single male nematode from the connective tissue were recovered ( Beverly-Burton and Crichton, 1976). This finding in a non-human primate raises the possibility that D. insignis has the potential to be zoonotic; however, no infections in humans have ever been reported.