Treponema Infection Associated With Genital Ulceration in Wild Baboons

S. Knauf1,2⇓, E. K. Batamuzi3, T. Mlengeya4, M. Kilewo4, I. A. V. Lejora4, M. Nordhoff5, B. Ehlers6, K. N. Harper7, R. Fyumagwa8, R. Hoare8, K. Failing9, A. Wehrend1, F. J. Kaup10, F. H. Leendertz2 and K. Mätz-Rensing10

Sources: 1Clinic for Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Andrology of Large and Small Animals, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany, 2Research Group Emerging Zoonoses, Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany, 3Department of Veterinary Surgery and Theriogenology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 4Ecology Monitoring Department, Tanzania National Parks, Arusha, Tanzania, 5Institute for Microbiology, and Epizootics, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 6Department for Genetics and Epidemiology of Herpesviruses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, 7Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar Program, Columbia University, New York, New York, 8Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 9Unit of Biomathematics and Data Processing, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany, 10Department of Infection Pathology, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute, Göttingen, Germany

Published online before print March 16, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0300985811402839 Veterinary Pathology March 2012 vol. 49 no. 2 292-303