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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, 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 6

Detection of B virus shedding in wild long-tailed macaques by using qPCR in study of prevalence of herpes B virus in Thailand, 2018–2024*

Age class
No. positive/total (%, 95% CI)
Male
Female
Total
Adult 1/240 (0.42, 0–1.7) 0 1/393 (0.26, 0–0.9)
Subadult 3/177 (1.69, 0–7.7) 2/107 (1.87, 0–2.6) 5/284 (1.76, 0–4.5)
Juvenile
2/111 (1.80, 0–4.1)
1/76 (1.32, 0–1.6)
3/187 (1.60, 0–2.4)
Total 6/528 (1.14, 0–3.5) 3/336 (0.89, 0–1.1) 9/864 (1.04, 0.2–2.0)

*qPCR, quantitative PCR.

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