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ArticleEcoHealth2018

Using Parasitic Load to Measure the Effect of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Vervet Monkeys.

Harriet R Thatcher, Colleen T Downs, Nicola F Koyama

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Article in EcoHealth, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Notes on the threadwormInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025
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  6. The problem of scale in the prediction and management of pathogen spillover.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Harriet R ThatcherSchool of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom St, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK. h.thatcher@2010.ljmu.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2321-2973
Colleen T DownsSchool of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Nicola F KoyamaSchool of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom St, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK.

Funding

Eramus Mundus AESOP (A European and South African Partnership on Heritage and Past) ES15DM0025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus, thrive in urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and present a suitable model to assess parasitic load as a measure of anthropogenic disturbance, such as urbanization. We collected vervet monkey faecal samples from four study sites representing a gradient of land use and urbanization. We assessed faecal parasites using the faecal flotation method calculating eggs per gram and parasite richness. Overall, the more urban vervet monkey populations had a significantly higher parasite richness and abundance. Our study shows the applicability of using parasite load to measure the effect of urbanization on wildlife.

Indexed as

Parasite LoadUrbanizationAnimalsAnimals, WildChlorocebus aethiopsFecesMonkey DiseasesSouth AfricaHuman–wildlifeLand-use gradientManagementTransmissionZoonosis

Identifiers

PMID30091030
PMCPMC6245093

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