title: Analysis of hematologic findings in healthy and sick adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
abstract: In order to assess the validity of interspecies extrapolation of hematological information, reference values obtained on 63 captive adult chimpanzees were compared with normal values for man. The discriminative power of both chimpanzee and human reference values was tested by the ability of each to identify abnormalities in the blood in 15 sick chimpanzees. The results indicated that human criteria could be applied to most chimpanzee red cell values but species differences were found in erythrocyte sedimentation rates and neutrophil counts.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004906:Erythrocyte Count / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000097:blood*; D009504:Neutrophils; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000097:blood*; D010976:Platelet Count / Q000662:veterinary