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  <dc:contributor>Donald W. Duszynski</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Robert N. Fisher</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Chris T. McAllister</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2013</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Between 1991 and 1993, 295 lizards, comprising 21 species in 2 families (Gekkonidae, Scincidae) from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Palau, Takapoto, and Vanuatu in the South Pacific, were examined for &lt;i&gt;Cryptosporidium&lt;/i&gt; oocysts. Only 6 lizards (2%) were found to be passing &lt;i&gt;Cryptosporidium&lt;/i&gt; oocysts in their feces, including 2 of 30 (7%) Oceania geckos, &lt;i&gt;Gehyra oceanica&lt;/i&gt;, from Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and 4 of 26 (15%) Pacific blue-tailed skinks, &lt;i&gt;Emoia caeruleocauda&lt;/i&gt;, from Efate Island, Vanuatu. This represents the largest survey for &lt;i&gt;Cryptosporidium&lt;/i&gt; in Pacific island lizards, and we document 2 new host and 2 new locality records for this parasite genus.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1654/4646.1</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Helminthological Society of Washington</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>New host and distributional records for &lt;i&gt;Cryptosporidium&lt;/i&gt; sp. (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae) from lizards (Sauria: Gekkonidae, Scincidae) from the Cook Islands and Vanuatu, South Pacific</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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