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Antibodies to type D retrovirus in talapoin monkeys
P Ilyinskii1, M Daniel, N Lerche
1New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772.
The Journal of General Virology
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
Sera from 154 African non-human primates were screened for the presence of antibodies to type D retrovirus proteins. Four of five talapoin monkeys (Miopithecus sp.) captured in western Africa were positive for antibodies to type D retrovirus by ELISA and by immunoblot reactivity. Talapoins are the only African non-human primates that have so far shown evidence for type D retrovirus infection. Thus, talapoin monkeys appear to be a reservoir of type D retrovirus infection.