Probable transmission of coxsackie B3 virus from human to chimpanzee, Denmark.

ABSTRACT: In 2010, a chimpanzee died at Copenhagen Zoo following an outbreak of respiratory disease among chimpanzees in the zoo. Identification of coxsackie B3 virus, a common human pathogen, as the causative agent, and its severe manifestation, raise questions about pathogenicity and transmissibility among humans and other primates.

SUBMITTER: Nielsen SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3376799 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature