Morphological and molecular detection of Blastocystis in wildlife from Tioman Island, Malaysia

• Published in: Tropical biomedicine Vol. 34; no. 1; p. 249
• Main Authors: Mohd Zain, S N, Farah Haziqah, M T, Woh, P Y, Fazly Ann, Z, Vickneshwaran, M, Mohd Khalid, M K N, Arutchelvan, R, Suresh, K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysia 01.03.2017

Blastocystis infection is widely reported in wildlife, livestocks and in non-human primates however, occurrence in Malaysian wildlife is scarce. A wildlife survey on Tioman Island captured six water monitor lizard (Varanus salvator), four mouse-deer (Tragulus sp.) and one Malayan porcupine (Hystrix...