Identification of Hepatitis B Virus Genome in Faecal Sample from Wild Living Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes Troglodytes) in Gabon

Overview

Journal J Clin Virol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2006 Feb 8

PMID 16461230

Citations 14

Authors

M Makuwa

S Souquiere

S L Clifford

A Mouinga-Ondeme

M Bawe-Johnson

E J Wickings

S Latour

F Simon

P Roques

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Abstract

Non-invasive faecal sampling in the equatorial forest in Gabon allowed the first identification of the hepatitis B virus (HBV-Ch(RC170)) genome in samples collected from wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). The HBV-Ch(RCl70)sequence clustered with 100% bootstrap support with previous viral sequences obtained from Pan troglodytes subspecies. This is the first evidence of HBV infection in wild apes and confirms that the HBV-like strains thus far characterized in captive apes are directly related to those circulating in the wild.

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