Primatas neotropicais: aspectos a cerca da identificação e do parasitismo (revisão de literatura).

Abstract

Brazil possesses the world primates largest diversity, including a third of all of the species of planet, according to International Union for the Conservation of the Nature (UICN), they are today about 300 species, of these, approximately 120 are native of South America and Central (neotropicais) and nothing less than 103 are in Brazilian territory, with that Neotropicais Primates study has been receiving great attention, maybe due to its similarity anatomical, physiologic and etiological with the human species. The parasitoses constitute a serious problem of public health in underdeveloped countries and in development, being registered high prevalence taxes in several areas. The present study on identification and parasitism aspects in primates is important for the primates handling and for the health maintenance of the people that work with those animals, because many of these parasites are potential zoonosis causes.