New Streptococcus pneumoniae clones in deceased wild chimpanzees |
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| Authors: | Chi Fang Leider Michaela Leendertz Fabian Bergmann Carina Boesch Christophe Schenk Svenja Pauli Georg Ellerbrok Heinz Hakenbeck Regine |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Paul Ehrlich Strasse 23, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany. |
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| Abstract: | In wild chimpanzees in the Ta? National Park, C?te d'Ivoire, sudden deaths which were preceded by respiratory problems had been observed since 1999. Two new clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae were identified in deceased apes on the basis of multilocus sequence typing analysis and ply, lytA, and pbp2x sequences. The findings suggest that virulent S. pneumoniae occurs in populations of wild chimpanzees with the potential to cause infections similar to those observed in humans. |
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