A new Bacillus anthracis found in wild chimpanzees and a gorilla from west and central Africa

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 0001-0004

  Leendertz, Fabian H ^a,b,c   Yumlu, Saniye ^a   Pauli, Georg ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^b   Couacy Hymann, Emmanuel ^d   Vigilant, Linda ^b   Junglen, Sandra ^a,b   Schenk, Svenja ^a,b   Ellerbrok, Heinz ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Great Ape Health Monitoring Unit

^d Laboratoire National d'Appui au Développement Agricole Laboratoire Central de la Pathologie Animal   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHIMPANZEE; DNA ISOLATION; GORILLA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; COTE D'IVOIRE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUDDEN DEATH; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CAMEROON; COTE D'IVOIRE; DEATH, SUDDEN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GORILLA GORILLA; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 33645773242     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020008     Document Type: Note

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