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- Title
Noninvasive Tuberculosis Screening in Free-Living Primate Populations in Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
- Authors
Wolf, Tiffany; Sreevatsan, Srinand; Singer, Randall; Lipende, Iddi; Collins, Anthony; Gillespie, Thomas; Lonsdorf, Elizabeth; Travis, Dominic
- Abstract
Recent advances in noninvasive detection methods for mycobacterial infection in primates create new opportunities for exploring the epidemiology of tuberculosis in free-living species. Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and baboons ( Papio anubis) in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, were screened for infection with pathogens of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex using Fecal IS 6110 PCR; none was positive. This study demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale mycobacterial screening in wild primates.
- Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS research; PRIMATE diseases; MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; CHIMPANZEES; BABOONS
- Publication
EcoHealth, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 1, p139
- ISSN
1612-9202
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10393-015-1063-y