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Volume 31, Number 4—April 2025

Dispatch

Yaws Circulating in Nonhuman Primates, Uganda and Rwanda

Tony L. GoldbergComments to Author , Leah A. Owens, Julius Nziza, Richard Muvunyi, Jessica M. Rothman, Patrick Omeja, and Colin A. Chapman
Author affiliation: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (T.L. Goldberg, L.A. Owens); Gorilla Doctors, Musanze, Rwanda (J. Nziza); Rwanda Development Board, Kigali, Rwanda (R. Muvunyi); Hunter College of City University of New York, New York, New York, USA (J.M. Rothman); New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York (J.M. Rothman); Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (P. Omeja); Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada (C.A. Chapman)

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Figure 1

Primates in Kibale National Park, Uganda, showing clinical signs of yaws in study of yaws circulating in nonhuman primates, Uganda and Rwanda. A) Adult olive baboon (Papio anubis) with erosive lesion on nose. Photograph by Jessica Rothman. B) Juvenile eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) with papules and crusting on face. Photograph by Kevin Lee. C) Adult L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) with eroded/missing nose. Photograph by Nancy Stevens. D) Adult red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) with ulcerative lesions on hand. Photograph by Alicia Rich.

Figure 1. Primates in Kibale National Park, Uganda, showing clinical signs of yaws in study of yaws circulating in nonhuman primates, Uganda and Rwanda. A) Adult olive baboon (Papio anubis) with erosive lesion on nose. Photograph by Jessica Rothman. B) Juvenile eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) with papules and crusting on face. Photograph by Kevin Lee. C) Adult L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) with eroded/missing nose. Photograph by Nancy Stevens. D) Adult red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) with ulcerative lesions on hand. Photograph by Alicia Rich.

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