Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Letter
Plasmodium vivax Seroprevalence in Bred Cynomolgus Monkeys, China
Hai-Long Li, Zhen-Yong Liu, Juan Li, Lin Ai, Dong-Hui Zhou, Zi-Guo Yuan, Rui-Qing Lin, Ya-Biao Weng, and Xing-Quan Zhu
Table
Prevalence of Plasmodium vivax antibodies in serum samples, from bred cynomolgus monkeys in southern China, determined by ELISA, 2008–2009*
| Province |
Primate
center |
Female |
Male |
Total |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, y |
No. positive/
no. examined |
Prevalence, % |
Age, y |
No. positive/
no. examined |
Prevalence, % |
No. positive/
no. examined |
Prevalence,
% |
||||
| GX |
A | 3.0–5.0 | 0/20 | 0 | 3.0–6.5 | 1/30 | 3.3 | 1/50 | 2 | ||
| B | 3.0–5.0 | 0/29 | 0 | 3.0–5.5 | 1/33 | 3.0 | 1/62 | 1.6 | |||
| C | 3.0–5.0 | 1/27 | 3.7 | 3.0–5.5 | 2/33 | 6.1 | 3/60 | 5 | |||
| D | 2.0–5.0 | 2/31 | 6.5 | 3.0–5.0 | 1/21 | 4.8 | 3/52 | 5.8 | |||
| Subtotal |
2.0–5.0 |
3/107 |
2.8 |
3.0–6.5 |
5/117 |
4.3 |
8/224 |
3.6 |
|||
| GD |
E | 2.5–3.0 | 0/14 | 0 | 2.5–3.0 | 0/13 | 0 | 0/27 | 0 | ||
| E | 7.0–8.0 | 0/12 | 0 | 8.0–9.0 | 0/13 | 0 | 0/25 | 0 | |||
| F | 2.5–3.0 | 2/28 | 7.1 | 2.5–6.0 | 1/24 | 4.2 | 3/52 | 5.8 | |||
| Subtotal |
2.5–8.0 |
2/54 |
3.7 |
2.5–9.0 |
1/50 |
2 |
3/104 |
2.9 |
|||
| Total | – | 5/161 | 3.1 | – | 6/167 | 3.6 | 11/328 | 3.4 | |||
*GX, Guangxi Zhuang Nationality Autonomous Region; GD, Guangdong Province; –, not applicable.
