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Journal of Virology, November 2002, p. 11155-11158, Vol. 76, No. 21
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.21.11155-11158.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of a Hepatitis B Virus Genome in Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi) from East Africa Indicates a Wide Geographical Dispersion among Equatorial African Primates{dagger}

Jean-Pierre Vartanian,1* Pascal Pineau,2 Michel Henry,1 William D. Hamilton,3 Martin N. Muller,4 Richard W. Wrangham,4 and Simon Wain-Hobson1

Unité de Rétrovirologie Moléculaire,1 Unité de Recombinaison et Expression Génétique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France,2 Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom,3 Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts4

Received 16 April 2002/ Accepted 26 July 2002

DNAs from four wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi) from eastern Africa were screened for 14 DNA viruses and retroviruses. Between two and three viruses were found in each animal. An entire hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome was amplified and sequenced from samples taken from one animal. This indicates that HBV is distributed across the entire range of chimpanzee habitats.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité de Rétrovirologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France. Phone: 33 1 45 68 88 21. Fax: 33 1 45 68 88 74. E-mail: jpvart{at}pasteur.fr.

{dagger} This paper is dedicated to the memory of Bill Hamilton.

Journal of Virology, November 2002, p. 11155-11158, Vol. 76, No. 21
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.21.11155-11158.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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