Volume 16, Number 12—December 2010
Dispatch
Wild Chimpanzees Infected with 5 Plasmodium Species
Marco Kaiser, Anna Löwa, Markus Ulrich, Heinz Ellerbrok, Adeelia S. Goffe, Anja Blasse, Zinta Zommers, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Fred Babweteera, Klaus Zuberbühler, Sonja Metzger, Sebastian Geidel, Christophe Boesch, Thomas R. Gillespie, and Fabian H. Leendertz
Table
Tissue and fecal samples from wild chimpanzees examined for Plasmodium species, Tai National Park, Cote d’Ivoire, and Budongo Forest, Uganda*
| Fecal samples, n = 30 | Positive qPCR results | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| P. t. verus | 21 (2) | P. gaboni | GU815519 (CytB) |
| P. t. schweinfuthii | 12 (3) | P. reichenowi P. gaboni | GU815520–22 (CytB) |
*All chimpanzees were Pan troglodytes verus from Tai except P. t. schweinfuthii chimpanzees, which were from Budongo Forest. Parentheses indicate the number of samples for which sequences were obtained and used for phylogenetic tree analyses. Neg, negative; qPCR, quantitative PCR.
