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Journal of Virology, March 2000, p. 2955-2959, Vol. 74, No. 6
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Hepadnavirus Infection in Captive Gibbons

Robert E. Lanford,1,* Deborah Chavez,1 Rebeca Rico-Hesse,1 and Alan Mootnick2

Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Regional Primate Research Center, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas 78227,1 and International Center for Gibbon Studies, Santa Clarita, California 913802

Received 26 August 1999/Accepted 16 December 1999

The recent isolation of a nonhuman primate hepadnavirus from woolly monkeys prompted an examination of other primates for potentially new hepadnaviruses. A serological analysis of 30 captive gibbons revealed that 47% were positive for at least one marker of ongoing or previous infection with a hepatitis B virus (HBV). The amino acid sequences of the core and surface genes of human and gibbon virus isolates were very similar. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the gibbon isolates lie within the human HBV family, indicating that these HBV isolates most likely stem from infection of gibbons from a human source.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Regional Primate Research Center, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, 7620 N.W. Loop 410, San Antonio, TX 78227. Phone: (210) 258-9445. Fax: (210) 670-3329. E-mail: rlanford{at}icarus.sfbr.org.

Journal of Virology, March 2000, p. 2955-2959, Vol. 74, No. 6
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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