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Volume 30, Number 4—April 2024
Research

Isolation of Diverse Simian Arteriviruses Causing Hemorrhagic Disease

Teressa M. Shaw, Samuel T. Dettle, Andres Mejia, Jennifer M. Hayes, Heather A. Simmons, Puja Basu, Jens H. Kuhn, Mitchell D. Ramuta, Cody J. Warren, Peter B. Jahrling, David H. O’Connor, Liupei Huang, Misbah Zaeem, Jiwon Seo, Igor I. Slukvin, Matthew E. Brown, and Adam L. BaileyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (T.M. Shaw, S.T. Dettle, A. Mejia, M.D. Ramuta, D.H. O’Connor, L. Huang, M. Zaeem, J. Seo, I.I. Slukvin, M.E. Brown, A.L. Bailey); Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Madison (S.T. Dettle, A. Mejia, J.M. Hayes, H.A. Simmons, P. Basu, D.H. O’Connor, I.I. Slukvin); National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA (J.H. Kuhn, P.B. Jahrling); The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (C.J. Warren)

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Viruses used in study of isolation of diverse simarteriviruses causing hemorrhagic disease*

Simarterivirus Year of discovery Place of discovery Natural monkey host from Africa Disease in macaques from Asia References
Kibale red colobus virus 1
2011
 Kibale National Park, Uganda
 Ugandan red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles)
 Mild (experimental exposure of crab-eating macaques)
 (10,17)
Pebjah virus
1989, 2015
 Primate Research Institute of New Mexico State University, Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA
 Unknown
 Severe/lethal (epizootic among captive crab-eating macaques)
 (9,20,21)
Simian hemorrhagic fever virus
1964
 Primate Quarantine Unit at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 Possible: Olive baboons (Papio anubis), patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas)
 Severe/lethal (epizootic among captive crab-eating macaques, rhesus monkeys, and stump-tailed macaques; experimental exposure of crab-eating macaques, Japanese macaques; rhesus monkeys, and stump-tailed macaques)
 (6–8,17,22–24)
Southwest baboon virus 1
2014
 Southwest National Primate Research Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA
 Olive baboons (Papio anubis)
 Subclinical (experimental exposure of rhesus monkeys)
 (12,22,25)
*NA, not applicable.

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