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Lethal Respiratory Disease Associated with Human Rhinovirus C in Wild Chimpanzees, Uganda, 2013.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2018
Scully Erik J, Basnet Sarmi, Wrangham Richard W, Muller Martin N, Otali Emily, Hyeroba David, Grindle Kristine A, Pappas Tressa E, Thompson Melissa Emery, Machanda Zarin, Watters Kelly E, Palmenberg Ann C, Gern James E, Goldberg Tony L
Abstract excerpt
We describe a lethal respiratory outbreak among wild chimpanzees in Uganda in 2013 for which molecular and epidemiologic analyses implicate human rhinovirus C as the cause. Postmortem samples from an infant chimpanzee yielded near-complete genome sequences throughout the respiratory tract; other pathogens were absent. Epidemiologic modeling estimated the basic reproductive number (R0) for the epidemic as 1.83,...
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