Table 1. Sample material and polyomavirus content.
Sample material | No. of tested samples | No. (%) of polyomavirus-positive samples |
Blood | 139 | 2 (1) |
Spleen | 126 | 25 (20) |
Feces | 117 | 3 (3) |
Lung | 106 | 7 (7) |
Kidney | 70 | 0 (0) |
Lymph node | 63 | 10 (16) |
Intestine | 41 | 6 (15) |
Liver | 35 | 2 (6) |
Chimp meal remaina | 22 | 1 (5) |
Urine | 21 | 0 (0) |
Muscle | 17 | 3 (18) |
Heart | 11 | 0 (0) |
Skin | 7 | 3 (43) |
Stomach | 7 | 0 (0) |
Thymus | 5 | 0 (0) |
Pancreas | 3 | 0 (0) |
Bone marrow | 2 | 0 (0) |
total | 792 | 61 (8) |
Muscle or other tissues from red colobus monkeys partly consumed by chimpanzees.