Lethal pneumonia in a captive juvenile chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) due to human-transmitted human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) and infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 236-240

  Szentiks, Claudia A ^a   Köndgen, Sophie ^b   Silinski, Sandra ^c   Speck, Stephanie ^a   Leendertz, Fabian H ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c Westfalischer Zoologischer Garten Munster GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Non human primates; Respiratory disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHIMPANZEE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPEREMIA; HYPERPLASIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RHINITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; PAN TROGLODYTES; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALIA; CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; HYDRANGEA RINGSPOT VIRUS; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67650594520     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2009.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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