Ape Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Causes of death in the Kasekela chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. 
  • Cerebrovascular accident (stroke) in captive, group-housed, female chimpanzees. 
  • Destabilization of the gut microbiome marks the end-stage of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild chimpanzees. 
  • Effective treatment of SIVcpz-induced immunodeficiency in a captive western chimpanzee. 
  • Human impacts, disease risk, and population dynamics in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. 
  • Hybrid origin of SIV in chimpanzees. 
  • Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees. 
  • Non-invasive body temperature measurement of wild chimpanzees using fecal temperature decline. 
  • Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes. 
  • SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees. 
  • Spontaneous adenomyosis in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): a first report and review of the primate literature: case report. 
  • Syndromic Surveillance of Respiratory Disease in Free-Living Chimpanzees. 
  • Using retrospective health data from the Gombe chimpanzee study to inform future monitoring efforts.