Pan troglodytes troglodytes

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Related to Pan troglodytes troglodytes: Pan troglodytes verus, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, central chimpanzee, Papio hamadryas

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Pan troglodytes troglodytes - black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees

central chimpanzee

chimp, chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes - intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

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samples Species (common name) SIV lineage SIV+ SIV- Pan troglodytes troglodytes SIVcpzPtt 2 1 (west central chimpanzee) Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii SIVcpzPts 1 NA (eastern chimpanzee) Cercopithecus nictitans (greater SIVgsn 6 45 spot-nosed monkey) Cercopithecus cephus SIVmus 7 30 (mustached monkey) Cercopithecus mona (Mona SIVmon NA 1 monkey) Miopithecus ogouensis SIVtal 1 6 (northern talapoin) Cercopithecus neglectus (De SIVdeb 7 1 Brazza monkey) Cercocebus torquatus (red-capped SIVrcm 4 NA mangabey) Chlorocebus tantalus (African SIVagm 1 NA green monkey) Mandrillus sphinx (mandrill) SIVmnd-2 10 2 Colobus guereza (mantled SIVcol 10 7 guereza) Total 49 93 * SIV, simian immunodefiency virus; NA, none available.

Novel multiplexed HIV/simian immunodeficiency virus antibody detection assay

The other subspecies that carries the virus, Pan troglodytes troglodytes, lives west of this region.

Virus can cause AIDS-like illness in chimpanzees: new study documents SIV's effects in a wild population

An increasingly endangered West African chimpanzee subspecies, Pan troglodytes troglodytes, was recently revealed to harmlessly harbor an AIDS-like virus that could solve the mystery of the disease's origins in humans--and lead to a cure.