Sandrine Souquière

TL;DR: Recovered carcasses were infected by a variety of Ebola strains, suggesting that Ebola outbreaks in great apes result from multiple virus introductions from the natural host.

TL;DR: A phylogeographic approach established that SIV is ancient and at least 32,000 years old as discussed by the authors, and analyses of gene sequence saturation and dating bias suggest it may be much older.

TL;DR: E Epidemiological surveys of human immunodeficiency virus revealed a case in Cameroon of a human infected by a virus serologically related to SIVmnd, raising the possibility that mandrills represent a viral reservoir for humans similar to sooty mangabeys in Western Africa and chimpanzees in Central Africa.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of 267 base pairs of the cytochrome b gene from 53 mandrills of known and unknown provenance revealed two phylogeographical groups, with haplotypes differentiated by 2.6% comprising seven synonymous transitions.

TL;DR: This combined ELISA system is thus highly sensitive and specific for antibodies directed against HIV and SIV, and should prove useful for studies of lentivirus prevalence and diversity in human and nonhuman primates, and may also have the potential to detect previously undescribed SIVs.