A Novel Adenovirus Species Associated with an Acute Respiratory Outbreak in a Baboon Colony and Evidence of Coincident Human Infection

ABSTRACT Adenoviruses (AdVs) are DNA viruses that infect many vertebrate hosts, including humans and nonhuman primates. Here we identify a novel AdV species, provisionally named “simian adenovirus C (SAdV-C),” associated with a 1997 outbreak of acute respiratory illness in captive baboons (4 of 9) a...

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Main Authors: Charles Y. Chiu, Shigeo Yagi, Xiaoyan Lu, Guixia Yu, Eunice C. Chen, Maria Liu, Edward J. Dick, Kenneth D. Carey, Dean D. Erdman, Michelle M. Leland, Jean L. Patterson
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/dfb995103bfc46cc835d6b4d404dc2af
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