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Volume 30, Number 3—March 2024
Dispatch

Potentially Zoonotic Enteric Infections in Gorillas and Chimpanzees, Cameroon and Tanzania

Emily K. Strahan, Jacob Witherbee, Richard Bergl, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Dismas Mwacha, Deus Mjungu, Mimi Arandjelovic, Romanus Ikfuingei, Karen Terio, Dominic A. Travis, and Thomas R. GillespieComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E.K. Strahan, E.V. Lonsdorf, T.R. Gillespie); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (J. Witherbee); North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro, North Carolina, USA (R. Bergl); Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania, Kigoma, Tanzania (D. Mwacha, D. Mjungu); Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (M. Arandjelovic); iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig (M. Arandjelovic); Wildlife Conservation Society Takamanda-Mone Landscape Project, Limbe, Cameroon (R. Ikfuingei); University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA (K. Terio); University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (D.A. Travis)

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Table 1

Number of individual wild Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli) positive for enteric infection targets in Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary and Mone River Forest Reserve, Cameroon (n = 18), 2011–2012

Assay target Pathogen group No. positive gorillas
Cryptosporidium parvum
 Parasite
 7
All adenovirus serotypes except 40 and 41
 Virus
 6
Enterococcus faecalis
 Bacteria
 5
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: E. coli carrying virulence gene for heat-labile or heat-stable enterotoxin
 Bacteria
 1
Enteropathogenic E. coli: E. coli carrying gene (eae) encoding outer membrane protein intimin and causing pathogenesis through attachment/effacement of epithelial cells
 Bacteria
 1
Escherichia coli and Shigella species carrying invasion plasmid antigen H gene
 Bacteria
 1
Salmonella bongori and all subspecies of Salmonella enterica Bacteria 1

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