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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 189, Issue 16, Pages 6085-6088Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00468-07
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In wild chimpanzees in the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire, sudden deaths which were preceded by respiratory problems had been observed since 1999. Two new clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae were identified in deceased apes on the basis of multilocus sequence typing analysis and ply, lytA, and pbp2x sequences. The findings suggest that virulent S. pneumoniae occurs in populations of wild chimpanzees with the potential to cause infections similar to those observed in humans.
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