| primate-to-human retroviral transmission in asia. | we describe the first reported transmission to a human of simian foamy virus (sfv) from a free-ranging population of nonhuman primates in asia. the transmission of an exogenous retrovirus, sfv, from macaques (macaca fascicularis) to a human at a monkey temple in bali, indonesia, was investigated with molecular and serologic techniques. antibodies to sfv were detected by western blotting of serum from 1 of 82 humans tested. sfv dna was detected by nested polymerase chain reaction (pcr) from the b ... | 2005 | 16022776 |
| risk assessment: a model for predicting cross-species transmission of simian foamy virus from macaques (m. fascicularis) to humans at a monkey temple in bali, indonesia. | contact between humans and nonhuman primates (nhps) frequently occurs at monkey temples (religious sites that have become associated with free-ranging populations of nhps) in asia, creating the potential for nhp-human disease transmission. in march 2003 a multidisciplinary panel of experts participated in a workshop designed to model the risk of nhp-human pathogen transmission. the panel developed a risk assessment model to describe the likelihood of cross-species transmission of simian foamy vi ... | 2006 | 16900504 |