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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
STLV‐I antibodies in feral populations of East African vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops)
International Journal of Cancer, Volume 38, No. 4, Year 1986
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Serum samples from feral populations of African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) were screened for antibodies to the simian T‐lymphotropic virus, type I (STLV‐I). Blood samples had been collected from 336 monkeys in 4 regions of central and southern Kenya in 1978 and 1979, from 114 monkeys in central Ethiopia in 1973, and from 85 monkeys from the Kampala region of Uganda in 1966. A total of 178/535 monkeys (33%) were seropositive (STLV‐I+). Only 4/114 monkeys (4%) from Ethiopia were seropositive compared to 25/85 Ugandan monkeys (29%) and 149/336 Kenyan monkeys (44%). Epidemiological analysis of the Kenyan monkeys showed that 37% of the males and 54% of the females were STLV‐I+, and that there was a progressive increase in the proportion of STLV‐1+ monkeys of both sexes with age, rising from an average of 16% in infants (< 9 months) to an average of 69% in adults (> 42 months). The proportion of STLV‐I+ monkeys was higher among females in each age category. Seropositivity for antibodies to STLV‐I had no apparent effect on the health of monkeys, and no association with the occurrence of Hepatocystis parasitemia was seen in this species. The analysis of data from infants of STLV‐I+ mothers showed that seroconversion had occurred in I of 3 cases, suggesting that vertical transmission of the STLV‐I virus is not an inevitable consequence for infants of seropositive mothers. Copyright © 1986 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
Authors & Co-Authors
Dracopoli, Nicholas C.
United States, New York
Memorial Sloan-kettering Cancer Center
United States, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Turner, Trudy R.
United States, Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-milwaukee
Else, James G.
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
Jolly, Clifford J.
United States, New York
New York University
Anthony, Robert
United States, Rockville
National Cancer Institute Nci
Gallo, Robert C.
United States, Rockville
National Cancer Institute Nci
Saxinger, W. Carl
United States, Rockville
National Cancer Institute Nci
Statistics
Citations: 50
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/ijc.2910380412
ISSN:
00207136
e-ISSN:
10970215
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Study Locations
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Participants Gender
Female