1. Studies of nonhuman primates: key sources of data on zoonoses and microbiota
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Mege, Jean-Louis, Bretelle, F., Leone, M., Davoust, B., Levasseur, A., Mediannikov, O., Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections (MEPHI), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique, Hôpital Nord [CHU - APHM], Centre d'Investigation Clinique [Hôpital de la Conception - APHM] (CIC), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)-Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Fédération nationale des Centres de lutte contre le Cancer (FNCLCC)-Fédération nationale des Centres de lutte contre le Cancer (FNCLCC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Hôpital de la Conception [CHU - APHM] (LA CONCEPTION), and Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU Marseille)
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Paper ,0301 basic medicine ,Pathogen detection ,nonhuman primates ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,Monkeypox ,microbiota ,medicine ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Culturomics ,[SDV.BA.MVSA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Veterinary medicine and animal Health ,faecal samples ,medicine.disease ,[SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology ,great apes ,zoonoses ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Evolutionary biology ,[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,Malaria - Abstract
The genetic and morphologic similarities between primates and humans means that much information obtained from primates may be applied to humans, and vice versa. However, habitat loss, hunting and the continued presence of humans have a negative effect on the biology and behaviour of almost all nonhuman primates. Noninvasive methods such as stool collection are among the safest alternative ways to study the multiple aspects of the biology of primates. Many epidemiologic issues (e.g. pathogen detection, microbiota studies) may be easily studied using stool samples from primates. Primates are undoubtedly among the first candidates suspected of becoming the source of one of the next emerging epidemic of zoonotic origin, as has already been observed with HIV, malaria and monkeypox. The Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection in Marseille actively participates in the study, mostly epidemiologic, of nonhuman primates, using mostly stool samples. Keywords: Culturomics, faecal samples, great apes, microbiota, nonhuman primates, zoonoses
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- 2018