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Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Research

Simian T-Lymphotropic Virus Diversity among Nonhuman Primates, Cameroon

David M. Sintasath, Nathan D. Wolfe1, Matthew LeBreton, Hongwei Jia, Albert D. Garcia, Joseph Le Doux Diffo, Ubald Tamoufe, Jean K. Carr, Thomas M. Folks, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole, Donald S. Burke2, Walid Heneine, and William M. SwitzerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (D.M. Sintasath, D.S. Burke); University of California School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA (N.D. Wolfe, U. Tamoufe); Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program, Yaoundé, Cameroon (M. LeBreton, J.L.D. Diffo, U. Tamoufe, E. Mpoudi-Ngole); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (H. Jia, A. D. Garcia, T.M. Folks, W. Heneine, W.M. Switzer); University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore (J.K. Carr)

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Table 2

Primate T-lymphotropic virus distribution among wild simian and prosimian species, Cameroon*

Taxonomic name (common name) DBS extracted, no. β-actin positive, no. (%) tax positive,† no. (%) STLV-1 LTR
positive, no. STLV-3 LTR positive, no.
Old World monkeys
Cercocebus agilis (agile mangabey) 6 3 (50) 3 (100) 2 1
C. cephus (moustached monkey) 41 32 (78) 0 0 0
C. mona (mona monkey) 40 36 (90) 1(2.7) 0 1
C. neglectus (de Brazza's monkey) 1 1 (100) 0 0 0
C. nictitans (spot-nosed monkey) 98 73 (74.5) 7 (9.6) 4 2
C. pogonias (crowned monkey) 9 8 (88.8) 0 0 0
Colobus guereza (guereza colobus) 3 2 (66.7) 0 0 0
Lophocebus albigena (gray-cheeked monkey)
 10
 9 (90)
 1 (11.1)
 0
 1
Prosimian
Arctocebus aureus (golden angwantibo) 2 1 (50) 0 0 0
A. calabarensis (calabar angwantibo) 2 2 (100) 0 0 0
Galago alleni (Allen's galago) 1 1 (100) 0 0 0
Perodicticus potto (potto)
 2
 2 (100)
 0
 0
 0
Total 215 170 (79.1) 12 (7.1) 6 (3.5) 5 (2.9)

*DBS, dried blood spots; STLV, simian T-lymphotropic virus; LTR, long terminal repeat.
†Samples negative for β-actin sequences were not tested for primate T-lymphotropic virus sequences.

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1Current affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

2Current affiliation: University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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