Non-invasive testing reveals a high prevalence of simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 antibodies in wild adult chimpanzees of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
Leendertz, Fabian H. and Boesch, Christophe and Ellerbrok, Heinz and Rietschel, Wolfram and Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel and Pauli, Georg,, 85, 3305-3312 (2004),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.80052-0,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 0022-1317,
abstract= Little information is available on the prevalence of retrovirus infections in populations of non-human primates living in their natural habitats. To gain such information, methods were developed to detect antibodies to simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (STLV-1) in urine from wild chimpanzees. Samples from more than 74 chimpanzees living in three communities in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, were analysed. The prevalence of STLV-1 antibodies in adults and adolescents was significantly higher (35/49, 71·4 %) than that in infant and juvenile chimpanzees (3/31, 9·7 %).,
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