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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 2

Number of individual wild eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) positive for enteric infection targets in Gombe National Park, Tanzania (n = 56), 2016–2018

Assay target Pathogen group No. positive chimpanzees
All adenovirus serotypes except 40 and 41
 Virus
 29
Enterotoxigenic E. coli: E. coli carrying virulence gene for heat-labile or heat-stable enterotoxin
 Bacteria
 5
Enteroaggregative E. coli: Escherichia coli carrying a virulence gene (aaiC) associated with causing pathogenesis through aggregation in the intestinal mucosa
 Bacteria
 4
Enteropathogenic E. coli: Escherichia coli carrying gene (bfpA) encoding bundle-forming pilus and causing pathogenesis through attachment/effacement of epithelial cells
 Bacteria
 1
Cryptosporidium parvum
 Parasite
 7
All Enterovirus serotypes within Enterovirus genus
 Virus
 5
All Giardia species infecting humans
 Parasite
 5
Trichuris trichiura (Trichocephalus trichiuris)
 Parasite
 3
Escherichia coli and Shigella species carrying invasion plasmid antigen H gene
 Bacteria
 2
Aeromonas hydrophila, caviae, veronii, jandaei, salmonicida, schubertii, popofii
 Bacteria
 1
Enterococcus faecalis
 Bacteria
 1
Norovirus belonging to genogroup 2
 Virus
 1
Rotavirus A species from Rotavirus genus Virus 1

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