Table 1.
Clinical history of the SIVcpzPtt-Cam155 infected chimpanzee (Ch-Go) since his arrival at the sanctuary in November 2003.
| Year | Months | Symptoms | Viral load (Log copies/ml)a |
CD4/CD8 counts (cells/mm3)b |
Platelets (cells/mm3) |
Weight (kg) |
Age (years) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 11 | Cachexia, dehydratation, wounds to the groin at arrival in sanctuary | 3.3 | 1.5 | |||
| 2004 | 02 | Anorexic | CD4 = 700; CD8 = 570 | ||||
| 02-04 | Respiratory illness | ||||||
| 03 | Balantidium coli, Entamoeba hartmanni, Trichomonas hominis | 5.09 | |||||
| 04 | Strongyloides | ||||||
| 05 | CD4 = 1,380; CD8 = 1,010 | 130,000 | |||||
| 06 | Balantidium coli, Ancylostoma | ||||||
| 2005 | 10 | Cestode infection | 8 | 3.5 | |||
| 2006 | 02-04 | Respiratory illness | |||||
| 03 | Swelling in eye lid surgically relieved | ||||||
| 05 | Fungal skin infection | ||||||
| 11 | Respiratory illness | ||||||
| 2007 | 02 | 14 | 4.8 | ||||
| 2008 | 01 | Oral candidiasis complicated with bacterial infection | |||||
| 03 | Nose bleeding | ||||||
| 2009 | 08 | An eye infection led to cataract and blindness in one eye | CD4 = 287; CD8 = 1,523 | 16 | 7.3 | ||
| 11 | Halitosis, bleeding gums and tooth decay | 4.04 | 5,000 | ||||
| 2010 | 01 | Halitosis, bleeding gums and tooth decay | 12.5 | 7.7 | |||
a Viral load was determined with the b-DNA method (Versant HIV-1 RNA 3.0, Siemens, Erlangen, Federal Republic of Germany) in 2004 and with the Abbott RealTime™ HIV-1 assay (Abbott, Chicago, USA) in August 2009.
b CD4 and CD8 counts were determined with Dynabeads in February and May 2004 and with Flow Cytometry in August 2009.