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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 94, Issue 5, Pages 1095-1099Publisher
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0262
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Serum specimens from free-ranging but nonnative patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in southwestern Puerto Rico (PR) were tested for antibodies to infection with dengue viruses (DENVs), West Nile virus (WNV), Leptospira species, and Burkholderia pseudomallei by microneutralization, plaque reduction neutralization, microscopic agglutination, and indirect hemagglutination, respectively. Of 23 animals (21 E. patas and two M. mulatta) tested, all had evidence of prior DENV infection, and of 17 animals tested for WNV, nine (53%) had evidence of prior infection. Of 24 (22 E. patas, two M. mulatta) tested for Leptospira spp., 10 (42%) had evidence of prior exposure, and one patas monkey had antibodies against B. pseudomallei. The acquisition of pathogens endemic among humans in PR by resident nonhuman primates merits further study to define modes of acquisition.
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