Leendertz Fabian H, Junglen Sandra, Boesch Christophe, Formenty Pierre, Couacy-Hymann Emmanuel, Courgnaud Valerie, Pauli Georg, Ellerbrok Heinz
Division of Retrovirology, Robert Koch Institute, D-13353 Berlin, Germany.
J Virol. 2004 Apr;78(8):4352-6. doi: 10.1128/jvi.78.8.4352-4356.2004.
We found human T-cell leukemia virus type 1- and simian T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (STLV-1)-related infections in 5 of 10 chimpanzees originating from three groups of wild chimpanzees. The new virus isolates showed a surprising heterogeneity not only in comparison to STLV-1 described previously in other primate species but also between the different chimpanzee groups, within a group, or even between strains isolated from an individual animal. The interdisciplinary combination of virology, molecular epidemiology, and long-term behavioral studies suggests that the primary route of infection might be interspecies transmission from other primates, such as red colobus monkeys, that are hunted and consumed by chimpanzees.
我们在来自三组野生黑猩猩的10只黑猩猩中,发现了5只感染了与人类1型嗜T细胞病毒和猴1型嗜T细胞病毒(STLV-1)相关的病毒。这些新的病毒分离株不仅与先前在其他灵长类物种中描述的STLV-1相比表现出惊人的异质性,而且在不同黑猩猩群体之间、群体内部,甚至从单个动物分离出的毒株之间也存在异质性。病毒学、分子流行病学和长期行为研究的跨学科结合表明,主要感染途径可能是来自其他灵长类动物的种间传播,比如被黑猩猩捕食并食用的红疣猴。