Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007

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Exposure to Wild Primates among HIV-infected Persons

Matthew LeBreton*, Otto Yang†, Ubald Tamoufe*, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole‡, Judith N. Torimiro*, Cyrille F. Djoko*, Jean K. Carr§, A. Tassy Prosser¶, Anne W. Rimoin†, Deborah L. Birx¶, Donald S. Burke#, and Nathan D. Wolfe† 

Author affiliations: *Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program, Yaoundé, Cameroon; †University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA; ‡Army Health Research Center, Yaoundé, Cameroon; §University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;

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Figure 2. Percentage of HIV-positive persons in 17 rural villages in Cameroon who reported different types of contact with all wild animal species and with nonhuman primates.

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