The high degree of sequence relatedness within members of each species suggests that at least some adenoviral strains may be capable of
infecting both nonhuman primates and humans.
Not exact matches
A retrovirus that naturally
infects many
nonhuman primate species can easily jump the species barrier to humans and does so frequently among bushmeat hunters in Africa, according to a study published in the 19 March issue of The Lancet.
«If we can confirm that the flies transmit viable bacteria and that
infected monkeys act as a
nonhuman reservoir, there will always be cases of yaws even if the disease is apparently eradicated due to medicine and hygienic measures,» says Knauf.
Adenoviruses, first isolated in the 1950s from explanted adenoid tissue, are double - stranded nonenveloped DNA viruses that naturally
infect many vertebrates, including humans and
nonhuman primates.
This observation implies that TMAdV possesses an inherent capacity to cross the species barrier and
infect both humans and
nonhuman primates.
Cells increase before zoster and PD - 1 expression increases at the time of zoster in immunosuppressed
nonhuman primates latently
infected with simian varicella virus.