Browsing by Subject "Ape Diseases/virology"
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2009-11-09ZeitschriftenartikelA novel herpesvirus in the sanctuary chimpanzees on Ngamba Island in Uganda Background: Recent studies in non-human primates have led to the discovery of novel primate herpesviruses. In order to get more information on herpesvirus infections in apes, we studied wild born captive chimpanzees. ...
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2004-07-05ZeitschriftenartikelCharacterization of a New Simian T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (STLV-1) in a Wild Living Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) from Ivory Coast: Evidence of a New STLV-1 Group? A new strain of simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 in blood samples from a chimpanzee that lived in the tropical rainforest of Ivory Coast is described. The sequence obtained from the long terminal repeat region of the ...
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2012-05-08ZeitschriftenartikelDetection of retroviral super-infection from non-invasive samples. While much attention has been focused on the molecular epidemiology of retroviruses in wild primate populations, the correlated question of the frequency and nature of super-infection events, i.e., the simultaneous infection ...
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2009-06-24ZeitschriftenartikelNovel cytomegaloviruses in free-ranging and captive great apes: phylogenetic evidence for bidirectional horizontal transmission Wild 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, ...