Latest papers

Why do chimpanzees die in the forest? The challenges of understanding and controlling for wild ape health.

Causes of death in the Kasekela chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania.

Up close and personal with Mahale chimpanzees--a path forward.

Chimpanzee respiratory disease and visitation rules at Mahale and Gombe National Parks in Tanzania.

Mountain gorilla research: the risk of disease transmission relative to the benefit from the perspective of ecosystem health.

A rant on infectious disease and ape research priorities.

A science-based approach to managing disease risks for ape conservation.

Clinical and pathologic manifestation of oesophagostomosis in African great apes: does self-medication in wild apes influence disease progression?

Disease transmission from humans to wild apes: perspectives on the costs and benefits of research and conservation.

Descriptive epidemiology of fatal respiratory outbreaks and detection of a human-related metapneumovirus in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Mahale Mountains National Park, Western Tanzania.

Commentary on "Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes," by Köndgen et al., 2008, Current Biology 18: 260-4.

Commentary on Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes, by Köndgen et al., 2008, Current Biology 18: 260-4.

Host-parasite ecology of the helminths in mountain gorillas.

Diverse contexts of zoonotic transmission of simian foamy viruses in Asia.

Human impacts, disease risk, and population dynamics in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania.

Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees.

Neuropathologic findings in an aged albino gorilla.

Presence and species identification of the gapeworm Mammomonogamus laryngeus (Railliet, 1899) (Syngamidae: Nematoda) in a semi-wild population of Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) in Indonesia.

Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes.

Identification and molecular characterization of new STLV-1 and STLV-3 strains in wild-caught nonhuman primates in Cameroon