Chi Fang, Leider Michaela, Leendertz Fabian, Bergmann Carina, Boesch Christophe, Schenk Svenja, Pauli Georg, Ellerbrok Heinz, Hakenbeck Regine
Department of Microbiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Paul Ehrlich Strasse 23, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
J Bacteriol. 2007 Aug;189(16):6085-8. doi: 10.1128/JB.00468-07. Epub 2007 Jun 22.
In wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte 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.
在科特迪瓦伊塔伊国家公园的野生黑猩猩中,自1999年以来就观察到在出现呼吸问题后会突然死亡。基于多位点序列分型分析以及ply、lytA和pbp2x序列,在死亡的猿类中鉴定出两种新型肺炎链球菌克隆。这些发现表明,有毒力的肺炎链球菌存在于野生黑猩猩群体中,有可能引发与人类中观察到的类似感染。