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2010-09-24ZeitschriftenartikelNoninvasive monitoring of respiratory viruses in wild chimpanzees. Köndgen, Sophie; Schenk, Svenja; Pauli, Georg; Boesch, Christophe; Leendertz, FabianTo diagnose respiratory disease among wild great apes, there is a need for noninvasive diagnostic methods. Therefore, we analyzed fecal samples from habituated chimpanzees from Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Samples had ...
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2011-08-10ZeitschriftenartikelNovel adenoviruses in wild primates: a high level of genetic diversity and evidence of zoonotic transmissions. Wevers, Diana; Metzger, Sonja; Babweteera, Fred; Bieberbach, Marc; Boesch, Christophe; Cameron, Kenneth; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Cranfield, Mike; Gray, Maryke; Harris, Laurie A.; Head, Josephine; Jeffery, Kathryn; Knauf, Sascha; Lankester, Felix; Leendertz, Siv Aina J.; Lonsdorf, Elizabeth; Mugisha, Lawrence; Nitsche, Andreas; Reed, Patricia; Robbins, Martha; Travis, Dominic A.; Zommers, Zinta; Leendertz, Fabian; Ehlers, BernhardAdenoviruses (AdVs) broadly infect vertebrate hosts, including a variety of nonhuman primates (NHPs). In the present study, we identified AdVs in NHPs living in their natural habitats, and through the combination of ...
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2009-06-24ZeitschriftenartikelNovel cytomegaloviruses in free-ranging and captive great apes: phylogenetic evidence for bidirectional horizontal transmission Leendertz, Fabian; Deckers, Merlin; Schempp, Werner; Lankester, Felix; Boesch, Christophe; Mugisha, Lawrence; Dolan, Aidan; Gatherer, Derek; McGeoch, Duncan J.; Ehlers, BernhardWild great apes often suffer from diseases of unknown aetiology. This is among the causes of population declines. Because human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is an important pathogen, especially in immunocompromised individuals, ...
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2013-06-01ZeitschriftenartikelNovel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolate from a Wild Chimpanzee Coscolla, Mireia; Lewin, Astrid; Metzger, Sonja; Mätz-Rennsing, Kerstin; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien; Nitsche, Andreas; Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek; Radonić, Aleksandar; Niemann, Stefan; Parkhill, Julian; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Feldman, Julia; Comas, Iñaki; Boesch, Christophe; Gagneux, Sebastien; Leendertz, FabianTuberculosis (TB) is caused by gram-positive bacteria known as the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). MTBC include several human-associated lineages and several variants adapted to domestic and, more rarely, wild ...
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2013-06-20ZeitschriftenartikelNovel Polyomaviruses of Nonhuman Primates: Genetic and Serological Predictors for the Existence of Multiple Unknown Polyomaviruses within the Human Population Scuda, Nelly; Madinda, Nadege Freda; Akoua-Koffi, Chantal; Adjogoua, Edgard Valerie; Wevers, Diana; Hofmann, Jörg; Cameron, Kenneth N.; Leendertz, Siv Aina J.; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Robbins, Martha; Boesch, Christophe; Jarvis, Michael A.; Moens, Ugo; Mugisha, Lawrence; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien; Leendertz, Fabian; Ehlers, BernhardPolyomaviruses are a family of small non-enveloped DNA viruses that encode oncogenes and have been associated, to greater or lesser extent, with human disease and cancer. Currently, twelve polyomaviruses are known to ...
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2010-07-09ZeitschriftenartikelThe Genome of a Bacillus Isolate Causing Anthrax in Chimpanzees Combines Chromosomal Properties of B. cereus with B. anthracis Virulence Plasmids Klee, Silke; Brzuszkiewicz, Elzbieta B.; Nattermann, Herbert; Brüggemann, Holger; Dupke, Susann; Wollherr, Antje; Franz, Tatjana; Pauli, Georg; Appel, Bernd; Liebl, Wolfgang; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Boesch, Christophe; Meyer, Frauke-Dorothee; Leendertz, Fabian; Ellerbrok, Heinz; Gottschalk, Gerhard; Grunow, Roland; Liesegang, HeikoAnthrax is a fatal disease caused by strains of Bacillus anthracis. Members of this monophyletic species are non motile and are all characterized by the presence of four prophages and a nonsense mutation in the plcR ...
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2011-06-30ZeitschriftenartikelThe spread of fecally transmitted parasites in socially-structured populations. Nunn, Charles L.; Thrall, Peter H.; Leendertz, Fabian; Boesch, ChristopheMammals are infected by a wide array of gastrointestinal parasites, including parasites that also infect humans and domesticated animals. Many of these parasites are acquired through contact with infectious stages present ...
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2010-12-01ZeitschriftenartikelWild Chimpanzees Infected with 5 Plasmodium Species Kaiser, Marco; Löwa, Anna; Ulrich, Markus; Ellerbrok, Heinz; Goffe, Adeelia S.; Blasse, Anja; Zommers, Zinta; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Babweteera, Fred; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Metzger, Sonja; Geidel, Sebastian; Boesch, Christophe; Gillespie, Thomas R.; Leendertz, FabianData are missing on the diversity of Plasmodium spp. infecting apes that live in their natural habitat, with limited possibility of human-mosquito-ape exchange. We surveyed Plasmodium spp. diversity in wild chimpanzees ...