Wild great apes as sentinels and sources of infectious disease

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 521-527

  Calvignac Spencer, S ^a   Leendertz, S A J ^a   Gillespie, T R ^b,c   Leendertz, F H ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Disease ecology; Emerging infectious diseases; Gorilla; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; AEROSOL; ANTHRAX; APE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BITE; CERCOCEBUS; CHIMPANZEE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GORILLA; HABITAT; HELMINTH; HEPADNAVIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PHYLOGENY; PICORNAVIRUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 84861009765     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03816.x     Document Type: Review

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