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. 2018 Jun 27;7(1):118.
doi: 10.1038/s41426-018-0121-2.

Human coronavirus OC43 outbreak in wild chimpanzees, Côte d´Ivoire, 2016

Livia V Patrono  1 , Liran Samuni  2   3 , Victor M Corman  4   5 , Leila Nourifar  1 , Caroline Röthemeier  1 , Roman M Wittig  2   3 , Christian Drosten  4   5 , Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer  1 , Fabian H Leendertz  6
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Human coronavirus OC43 outbreak in wild chimpanzees, Côte d´Ivoire, 2016

Livia V Patrono et al. Emerg Microbes Infect. .
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Fig. 1. Human coronavirus OC43 detection in chimpanzee fecal samples over time.
Each line represents an individual. Bold names represent consistently symptomatic individuals. Gray shadowing indicates the time frame of symptoms’ observation in the group. Vertical grey lines correspond to the dates in which human quarantine swabs were positive
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