Yaws Disease Caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue in Wild Chimpanzee, Guinea, 2019
Benjamin Mubemba
1, Emeline Chanove
1, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Jan F. Gogarten, Ariane Düx, Kevin Merkel, Caroline Röthemeier, Andreas Sachse, Helene Rase, Tatyana Humle, Guillaume Banville, Marine Tchoubar, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Christelle Colin, and Fabian H. Leendertz
Author affiliations: Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia (B. Mubemba); Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (B. Mubemba, J.F. Gogarten, A. Düx, K. Merkel, C. Röthemeier, A. Sachse, S. Calvignac-Spencer, F.H. Leendertz); University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (E. Chanove); Chimpanzee Conservation Center, Somoria, Faranah, Republic of Guinea (E. Chanove, H. Rase, G. Banville, M. Tchoubar, C. Colin); Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany (K. Mätz-Rensing); University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (T. Humle)
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Figure 1. Yaws-like lesions in wild chimpanzees, Guinea. A) Yaws-like lesions observed during a necropsy of an adult female chimpanzee found in the Sangaredi area, Guinea. B, C) Camera trap images showing yaws-like lesions on adult (B) and juvenile (C) chimpanzees in Haut Niger National Park, Guinea.
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