REACTIVE EROSIVE ARTHRITIS IN CHIMPANZEES

REACTIVE EROSIVE ARTHRITIS IN CHIMPANZEES

Rothschild B M; Woods R J

American Journal of Primatology

1991

1991

Diagnosis of diseases of bone, without benefit of soft tissue, in vivo observation, or blood component analysis requires the development of new criteria for diagnosis. Analyzing chimpanzee skeletal populations, applying such criteria (e.g., lesion character, distribution, radiologic appearance, and sex ratios), revealed a picture indistinguishable from human spondyloarthropathy. As Africa has been shown to manifest this condition in indigenous human, chimpanzee, and lowland gorilla populations, the possibility of a non-species specific etiology is suggested.

chimpanzees; disease; erosions; erosive arthritis; gombe; hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy; primates; reactive arthritis; rheumatoid-arthritis; spondyloarthropathy; Zoology

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