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Sexual transmission of SIVagm in wild grivet monkeys
J E Phillips-Conroy1, C J Jolly, B Petros
1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Journal of Medical Primatology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
This study reports the prevalence of simian immunodeficiency virus and the relationship of serostatus to age and sex among a wild population of Ethiopian grivet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops aethiops). Seropositivity paralleled patterns of sexual activity, being nearly universal in females of reproductive age, and absent in all males except those that were fully adult. One female seroconverted between two capture seasons at an age consistent with first breeding. Our findings support a predominantly sexual mode of transmission among SIVagm infected grivets.