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SUBMITTER: Nix WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2546737 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nix W Allan WA Jiang Baoming B Maher Kaija K Strobert Elizabeth E Oberste M Steven MS
Journal of clinical microbiology 20080702 9
In a recent study, we investigated cases of diarrheal disease among monkeys at a U.S. primate center. In that study, enteroviruses were detected in a high proportion of the fecal specimens tested. To determine whether the enterovirus detections represented the circulation of one or more simian enteroviruses within the colony or the transmission of human enteroviruses from animal handlers, we determined in the present study the serotype identity of each virus by reverse transcription-PCR and sequ ...[more]