Diversity of parvovirus 4-like viruses in humans, chimpanzees, and monkeys in hunter-prey relationships

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 859 - 862
• Main Authors: Adlhoch, Cornelia, Kaiser, Marco, Loewa, Anna, Ulrich, Markus, Forbrig, Christian, Adjogoua, Edgard V, Akoua-Koffi, Chantal, Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel, Leendertz, Siv Aina J, Rietschel, Wolfram, Boesch, Christophe, Ellerbrok, Heinz, Schneider, Bradley S, Leendertz, Fabian H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.05.2012; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis; Animals; Child; Chimpanzees; Colobus - virology; colobus monkeys; Cote d'Ivoire; Côte d’Ivoire; Disease transmission; Dispatch; DNA, Viral - chemistry; Genetic Variation; Health aspects; Humans; Middle Aged; Molecular Sequence Data; Monkeys; Pan troglodytes - virology; partetetravirus; PARV4; Parvoviridae Infections - transmission; Parvoviridae Infections - virology; Parvovirus - classification; Parvovirus - genetics; parvovirus 4; Phylogeny; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Viral Proteins - genetics; Young Adult; Cote d'Ivoire; Côte d'Ivoire
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid1805.111849

During 2010-2011, we investigated interspecies transmission of partetraviruses between predators (humans and chimpanzees) and their prey (colobus monkeys) in Côte d'Ivoire. Despite widespread infection in all species investigated, no interspecies transmission could be detected by PCR and genome analysis. All sequences identified formed species- or subspecies (chimpanzee)-specific clusters, which supports a co-evolution hypothesis.