Primate Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Do threatened hosts have fewer parasites? A comparative study in primates. 
  • Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates? 
  • Evolutionary conservation of primate lymphocryptovirus microRNA targets. 
  • Identifying wildlife reservoirs of neglected taeniid tapeworms: Non-invasive diagnosis of endemic Taenia serialis infection in a wild primate population. 
  • Integrative approaches to the study of primate infectious disease: implications for biodiversity conservation and global health. 
  • Parasites and the evolutionary diversification of primate clades. 
  • Primate disease ecology in comparative and theoretical perspective. 
  • Promiscuity and the primate immune system. 
  • Recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara provides durable protection against disease caused by an immunodeficiency virus as well as long-term immunity to an orthopoxvirus in a non-human primate. 
  • Why are some species more commonly afflicted by arthritis than others? A comparative study of spondyloarthropathy in primates and carnivores.