Fig 1.
Rope materials tested for the collection of oral samples from nonhuman primates.
Left: Nylon oral swab rope, middle: cotton rope, right: nylon rope. (Photo by N. Walker).
Fig 2.
Rhesus macaque from Thapatali temple complex with nylon oral swab rope.
(Photo by T. Smiley Evans).
Fig 3.
Red-tailed guenon in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest region, Uganda with nylon oral swab rope and attached retrieval string.
(Photo by T. Smiley Evans).
Fig 4.
L’hoest’s monkey in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest region, Uganda with nylon oral swab rope and attached retrieval string.
(Photo by T. Smiley Evans).
Fig 5.
Nylon oral swab rope disguised inside a banana for distribution to baboons in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.
(Photo by O.R. Okello).
Fig 6.
Olive baboon in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda with nylon oral swab rope disguised inside a banana.
(Photo by T. Smiley Evans).
Table 1.
Hypothesized parameter prior distributions for rhesus cytomegalovirus and simian foamy virus used in Bayesian model to calculate estimated sensitivity and specificity for swab and rope collection methods.
Table 2.
Agreement of detection of rhesus cytomegalovirus and simian foamy virus in oral samples collected from ropes and swabs from laboratory colony rhesus macaques.
Table 3.
Estimated sensitivity and specificity of rope and swab sample collection techniques for the detection of rhesus cytomegalovirus and simian foamy virus based on a Bayesian analysis in the absence of a gold standard.