ArticleEcoHealth2016
Codetection of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Habituated Wild Western Lowland Gorillas and Humans During a Respiratory Disease Outbreak.
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- Distribution and prevalence ofJournal of medical microbiology · 2025Article
- The extent of western lowland gorilla social relationships within and between groups.PloS one · 2025Article
- Predictors of respiratory illness in western lowland gorillas.Primates; journal of primatology · 2024Article
- The reverse zoonotic potential of SARS-CoV-2.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Common cold viruses circulating in children threaten wild chimpanzees through asymptomatic adult carriers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Pediatric Respiratory Pathogens Circulate in Children and Adults in Communities Near Susceptible Wild Great Ape Populations in Uganda.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- Estimating prevalence of Enterovirus D111 in human and non-human primate populations using cross-sectional serology.The Journal of general virology · 2023Article
- Projecting the impact of an ebola virus outbreak on endangered mountain gorillas.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Neopterin Levels in Bonobos Vary Seasonally and Reflect Symptomatic Respiratory Infections.EcoHealth · 2023Article
- Viruses in sanctuary chimpanzees across Africa.American journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Human-Borne Pathogens: Are They Threatening Wild Great Ape Populations?Veterinary sciences · 2022Review
- Viruses associated with ill health in wild chimpanzees.American journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Respiratory Disease Risk of Zoo-Housed Bonobos Is Associated with Sex and Betweenness Centrality in the Proximity Network.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Rapid transmission of respiratory infections within but not between mountain gorilla groups.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- One Health Perspectives on New Emerging Viral Diseases in African Wild Great Apes.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Pneumoviruses have been identified as causative agents in several respiratory disease outbreaks in habituated wild great apes. Based on phylogenetic evidence, transmission from humans is likely. However, the pathogens have never been detected in the local human population prior to or at the same time as an outbreak. Here, we report the first simultaneous detection of a human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) infection in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and in the local human population at a field program in the Central African Republic. A total of 15 gorilla and 15 human fecal samples and 80 human throat swabs were tested for HRSV, human metapneumovirus, and other respiratory viruses. We were able to obtain identical sequences for HRSV A from four gorillas and four humans. In contrast, we did not detect HRSV or any other classic human respiratory virus in gorilla fecal samples in two other outbreaks in the same field program. Enterovirus sequences were detected but the implication of these viruses in the etiology of these outbreaks remains speculative. Our findings of HRSV in wild but human-habituated gorillas underline, once again, the risk of interspecies transmission from humans to endangered great apes.
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