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Chronic fatal disease in gorillas seropositive for simian T-lymphotropic virus I antibodies
J R Blakeslee1, H M McClure, D C Anderson
1Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Cancer Letters
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Sera from 10 gorillas were tested by indirect immunofluorescent antibody assay, Western blotting and ELISA to Human T-lymphotropic viruses for cross-reacting with antibodies to Simian T-lymphotropic virus I (STLV-I). Four were antibody positive. Of the 4 seropositive gorillas, one has remained healthy, while 3 have died with similar disease problems as reconstructed from clinical records. It is not known whether a causal relationship exists between these diseases and STLV-I retrovirus infection.