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. 2009 Nov 11;84(3):1464–1476. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02129-09

TABLE 2.

SIV infection in wild gorilla and chimpanzee populations from different field sites in Central Africa

Country Collection sitea No. of gorilla samplesb No. of SIVgor antibody-positive samples No. of SIVgor-infected gorillasc No. of chimpanzee samplesb No. of SIVcpz antibody-positive samples No. of SIVcpz-infected chimpanzeesc
Cameroon LM 259 0 0 62 0 0
BQ 27 0 0 50 0 0
MM 152 0 0 0
CP 473 29 11 180 9 2
GB 88 0 0 4 0 0
MB 117 0 0 14 2 1
KK 18 0 0 1 0 0
LB 135 0 0 4 0 0
DJ 206 13 5 17 4 1
DI 0 55 0 0
AL 46 0 0 0
BY 147 0 0 1 1 1
DD 260 0 0 5 0 0
CAR ME 21 0 0 22 0 0
ND 171 0 0 27 0 0
DS 93 0 0 0
Congo GT 122 0 0 0
Gabon LO 32 0 0 0
DRC KE 128 0 0 0
OP 51 0 0 0
LU 4 0 0 0
Total 2,550 42 16 442 16 4
a

Locations of sites are shown in Fig. 1.

b

Determined by mitochondrial DNA analysis of fecal DNA and/or species identification in the field (see Materials and Methods).

c

Determined by microsatellite analysis (see Tables 3 and 4).