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SUBMITTER: LeBreton M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3913825 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
LeBreton Matthew M Switzer William M WM Djoko Cyrille F CF Gillis Amethyst A Jia Hongwei H Sturgeon Michele M MM Shankar Anupama A Zheng Haoqiang H Nkeunen Gerard G Tamoufe Ubald U Nana Ahmadou A Le Doux Diffo Joseph J Tafon Babila B Kiyang John J Schneider Bradley S BS Burke Donald S DS Wolfe Nathan D ND
Emerging microbes & infections 20140122 1
Of the seven known species of human retroviruses only one, human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 4 (HTLV-4), lacks a known animal reservoir. We report the largest screening for simian T-cell lymphotropic virus (STLV-4) to date in a wide range of captive and wild non-human primate (NHP) species from Cameroon. Among the 681 wild and 426 captive NHPs examined, we detected STLV-4 infection only among gorillas by using HTLV-4-specific quantitative polymerase chain reaction. The large number of samples ...[more]