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Volume 32, Number 10—October 2026
Research
Persistent Bartonella quintana Infection in Macaques at Primate Research Institute, Japan
Yoshiki Nomura, Yuka Fukudome, Akihiro Homma, Tadashi Sankai, Munehiro Okamoto, Hidenori Kabeya, Soichi Maruyama, and Shingo Sato
Table 1
Blood sample collection of macaques in study of persistent Bartonella quintana infection in macaques at primate research institute, Japan*
| Institute | Year | No. samples |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese macaques, wild-caught | Japanese macaques, captive-bred | Rhesus macaques, captive-bred | Cynomolgus macaques, captive-bred | ||
| PRI | 2016 | 22 | 151 | NA | NA |
| 2017 |
70 |
84 |
101 |
NA |
|
| TPRC |
2017 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
90 |
| Total | 92 | 235 | 101† | 90‡ | |
*NA, not applicable; PRI, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; TPRC, Tsukuba Primate Research Center, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition. †The macaques originated from China (n = 56) and India (n = 45). ‡The macaques originated from Indonesia (n = 30), the Philippines (n = 30), and Malaysia (n = 30).
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