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1 Zentrum für Biologische Sicherheit, Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany
2 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
3 Institute for Parasitology and International Animal Health, Freie Universität Berlin, Königsweg 67, 14163 Berlin, Germany
4 Zoologisch-Botanischer Garten Wilhelma, 70342 Stuttgart, Germany
5 Lanada/Lcpa, Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire
Correspondence
Georg Pauli
PauliG{at}rki.de
Little information is available on the prevalence of retrovirus infections in populations of non-human primates living in their natural habitats. To gain such information, methods were developed to detect antibodies to simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (STLV-1) in urine from wild chimpanzees. Samples from more than 74 chimpanzees living in three communities in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, were analysed. The prevalence of STLV-1 antibodies in adults and adolescents was significantly higher (35/49, 71·4 %) than that in infant and juvenile chimpanzees (3/31, 9·7 %).
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