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Volume 31, Number 4—April 2025
Research

Prevalence of Herpes B Virus in Wild Long-Tailed Macaques, Thailand, 2018–2024

Krittiga Sapkanarak, Jiro Yasuda, Murasaki Amano, Suthirote Meesawat, Taratorn Kemthong, Titiporn Kaikaew, and Suchinda Malaivijitnond
Author affiliation: Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Science, Bangkok, Thailand (K. Sapkanarak, T. Kaikaew, S. Malaivijitnond); Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan (J. Yasuda, M. Amano); National Primate Research Center of Thailand, Saraburi, Thailand (S. Meesawat, T. Kemthong, S. Malaivijitnond)

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Table 4

Number of wild long-tailed macaques seropositive for B virus classified by age and sex in study of prevalence of herpes B virus in Thailand, 2018–2024*

Age class
 No. positive/total (%, 95% CI)
Male
 Female
 Total
Adult 228/240 (95.5, 83.3–101.5) 149/153 (97.4, 70.4–99.9) 377/393 (95.9, 80.4–97.2)
Subadult 144/177 (81.4, 60.6–86.6) 96/107 (89.7, 54.7–89.4) 240/284 (84.5, 62.4–83.3)
Juvenile 37/111(36.6, 28.8–78.6) 24/76 (31.6, 6.7–34.4) 61/187 (32.6, 14.5–34.7)
Total 409/528 (77.5, 55.1–86.1) 269/336 (80.1, 59.8–92.6) 678/864 (78.5, 76.1–86.9)

*B virus was detected by using ELISA. Significant differences in seropositivity were observed among 3 age classes (p<0.05).

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