Frequent horizontal and mother-to-child transmission may contribute to high prevalence of STLV-1 infection in Japanese macaques - Murata, Megumi; Yasunaga, Jun-ichirou; Washizaki, Ayaka; Seki, Yohei; Kuramitsu, Madoka; Tan, Wei Keat; Hu, Anna; Okuma, Kazu; Hamaguchi, Isao; Mizukami, Takuo; Matsuoka, Masao; Akari, Hirofumi (Retrovirology, 2020)
Keywords: Analysis; Animal welfare; Animals; Antibodies; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Antibody titer; Central nervous system diseases; Deltaretrovirus Infections - transmission; Deltaretrovirus Infections - veterinary; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Disease transmission; Disease Transmission, Infectious; DNA; Epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Genetic testing; Genomes; Health aspects; Immune response (humoral); Infection; Infections; Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; Japan; Japanese macaques; Leukemia; Lymphocytes T; Macaca fuscata - virology; Male; Mother-to-child transmission; Plasma; Prevalence; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology); Primates; Proviral load; Proviruses - genetics; Seroconversion; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Simian T-lymphotropic virus 1 - genetics; Simian T-lymphotropic virus 1 - physiology; Spastic paraparesis; Spinal cord; STLV-1; T cells; Tropical spastic paraparesis; Zoonoses; Japan; Germany; Africa; Horizontal transmission; Prevalence; Japanese macaques; Antibody titer; STLV-1; Mother-to-child transmission; Proviral load