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Animal: RNA Viruses |
Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, BP 1274, Yaoundé, Cameroon1
Unité d’Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Département du SIDA et des Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, 25–28 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France2
Author for correspondence: Antoine Gessain. Fax +33 1 40 61 34 65, e-mail agessain{at}pasteur.fr
A serological survey for human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV)/simian T-lymphotropic virus (STLV) antibodies was performed in 102 wild-caught monkeys and apes from 15 (sub)species originating from Cameroon. Two animals (a Mandrillus sphinx and a Cercocebus agilis) exhibited a complete HTLV-1 seroreactivity pattern while two others lacked either the p24 (a Mandrillus sphinx) or the MTA-1/gp46 bands (a Pan troglodytes). Sequence comparison and phylogenetic analyses, using a 522 bp env gene fragment and the complete LTR, indicated that the two mandrill STLV strains belonged to the HTLV/STLV subtype D clade while the chimpanzee strain clustered in the HTLV/STLV subtype B clade. The Cercocebus agilis STLV strain, the first one found in this species, was closely related to the two HTLV/STLV subtype F strains. Such data indicate that the African biodiversity of STLV-1 in the wild is far from being known and reinforces the hypothesis of interspecies transmission of STLV-1 from monkeys and apes to humans leading to the present day distribution of HTLV-1 in African inhabitants.
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