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Volume 8, Number 5—May 2002
Research

Risk to Human Health from a Plethora of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses in Primate Bushmeat

Martine Peeters*Comments to Author , Valerie Courgnaud*, Bernadette Abela†, Philippe Auzel†‡, Xavier Pourrut*, Frederic Bibollet-Ruche§, Severin Loul†, Florian Liegeois*, Cristelle Butel*, Denis Koulagna¶, Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole†, George M. Shaw§, Beatrice H. Hahn§, and Eric Delaporte*
Author affiliations: *Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France; †Projet Prevention du Sida au Cameroun (PRESICA), Yaounde, Cameroon; ‡Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, Gembloux, Belgium; §University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; ¶Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Yaounde, Cameroon;

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Table 2

HIV-1/HIV-2 cross-reactive antibodiesa detected in primate species hunted in Cameroon

Genus Species Common name Pet animals Primate bushmeat Total
pos/tested ind/tested pos/tested ind/tested pos/tested ind/tested
Cercocebus agilis Agile mangabey 1/19 1/19 5/33 7/33 6/52 8/52
torquatus Red-capped mangabey 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/2 0/2
Lophocebus albigena Grey-cheeked mangabey 0/6 0/6 2/15 3/15 2/21 3/21
Cercopithecus cephus Mustached guenon 1/29 3/29 48/273 9/273 49/302 12/302
mona Mona monkey 1/7 0/7 1/2 0/2 2/9 0/9
neglectus De Brazza’s monkey 1/8 0/8 9/26 1/26 10/34 1/34
nictitans Greater spot-nosed monkey 6/44 0/44 22/122 3/122 28/166 3/166
pogonias Crested mona 0/6 0/6 9/67 4/67 9/73 4/73
preussi Preuss’s monkey 0/1 - - - 0/1 -
Chlorocebus tantalus Tantalus monkey 3/18 0/18 - - 3/18 0/18
Miopithecus ogouensis Gabon talapoin 2/11 1/11 2/8 0/8 4/19 1/19
Erythrocebus patas Patas monkey 1/19 0/19 - - 1/19 0/19
Colobus guereza Mantled guereza 0/2 0/2 7/24 1/24 7/26 1/26
Mandrillus leucophaeus Drill 0/2 0/2 - - 0/2 0/2
sphinx Mandrill 7/20 0/20 1/2 1/2 8/22 1/22
Papio anubis Olive baboon 2/22 0/22 - - 2/22 0/22
Total 25/215 5/215 106/573 29/573 131/788 34/788
(%) 11.6% 2.3% 18.4% 5.1% 16.6% 4.3%

aPlasma samples were tested for antibodies cross-reactive with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antigens by using a recombinant-based line immunoassay (INNO-LIA HIV Confirmation, Innogenetics, Ghent, Belgium). Positive (pos) and indeterminant (ind) INNO-LIA scoring criteria as described in Methods.

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