Articles | Volume 6, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-6-1-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-6-1-2019
Research article
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26 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2019

Seroprevalence of viral infections in captive rhesus and cynomolgus macaques

Artur Kaul, Uwe Schönmann, and Stefan Pöhlmann

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Monitoring macaque health requires the detection of infectious diseases. Here, we report the screening of a macaque colony for antibodies which indicate selected viral infections. Our results show that infection with beta- and gamma-herpesviruses was frequent, while infection with simian retrovirus type D and simian T cell leukemia virus was not. Measles virus infection was more frequent in animals with extensive contact with humans, but no firm correlation could be established.
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