Table. Tissue and fecal samples from wild chimpanzees examined for Plasmodium species, Tai National Park, Cote d’Ivoire, and Budongo Forest, Uganda*.
| Type of sample and name or species of chimpanzee |
Genetic sequence copies/mg tissue |
Plasmodium species detected |
GenBank accession nos. |
| Necropsy | |||
| Loukoum | 530 | P. gaboni | GU815507 (CytB), GU815523 (18S) |
| Noah | 50 | P. gaboni | GU815508 (CytB), GU815524 (18S) |
| Orest | 2.2 x 10 | P. gaboni | GU815509 (CytB), GU815525 (18S) |
| Candy | 65 | P. reichenowi | GU815510 (CytB), GU815526 (18S) |
| Atra | 100 | P. reichenowi | GU815511 (CytB) |
| Louise | 160 | P. reichenowi | GU815512 (CytB), GU815527 (18S) |
| EastChip 06 | 105 | P. reichenowi, P. gaboni | GU815512–13 (CytB) |
| Olduvai | 130 | P. reichenowi, P. malariae | GU815514–15 (CytB), GU815528–29 (18S) |
| Leo | 850 | P. malariae | GU815516 (CytB), GU815530 (18S) |
| Kady | 105 | P. ovale | GU815517 (CytB), GU815531 (18S) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sagu | 760 | P. vivax | GU815518 (CytB), GU815532 (18S) |
| Dorry | Neg | ||
| Virunga | Neg | ||
| Ophelia | Neg | ||
| Akruba | Neg | ||
| Akwaba | Neg |
| Fecal samples, n = 30 | Positive qPCR results | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| P. t. verus | 21 (2) | P. gaboni | GU815519 (CytB) |
| P. t. schweinfuthii | 12 (3) | P. reichenowi P. gaboni | GU815520–22 (CytB) |
*All chimpanzees were Pan troglodytes verus from Tai except P. t. schweinfuthii chimpanzees, which were from Budongo Forest. Parentheses indicate the number of samples for which sequences were obtained and used for phylogenetic tree analyses. Neg, negative; qPCR, quantitative PCR.