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Article: Unique pattern of enzootic primate viruses in Gibraltar macaques.(DISPATCHES)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Because Gibraltar's macaques (Macaca sylvanus) have frequent contact with humans, we assayed 79 macaques for antibodies to enzootic primate viruses. All macaques were seronegative for herpesvirus B, simian T-cell lymphotropie virus, simian retrovirus, simian immunodefieiency virus, and rhesus cytomegalovirus. Seroprevalence of simian foamy virus reached 88% among adult animals.
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