Chimpanzee deaths at Mahale caused by a flu-like disease

Primates

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-80

  Hanamura, Shunkichi ^a   Kiyono, Mieko ^a   Lukasik Braum, Magdalena ^b   Mlengeya, Titus ^c   Fujimoto, Mariko ^d   Nakamura, Michio ^a   Nishida, Toshisada ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NOMAD   (Tanzania)

^c Tanzania National Parks   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^e JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Epizootic; Flu like disease; Mahale; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; PNEUMONIA; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APE DISEASE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; MORTALITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; PAN TROGLODYTES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KIGOMA [TANZANIA]; MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII;

EID: 37549021095     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-007-0054-1     Document Type: Article

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