Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as an 'Accepted Article', doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03816.x © 2012 The Authors Clinical Microbiology and Infection © 2012 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Received Date : 02-Jan-2012 Revised Date : 15-Feb-2012 Accepted Date : 17-Feb-2012 Article type : Invited Review Title Wild great apes as sentinels and sources of infectious disease Authors Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer 1 , Siv Aina J. Leendertz 1 , Thomas R. Gillespie 2,3 and Fabian H. Leendertz 1,# Affiliations 1 Emerging Zoonoses, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Environmental Studies and Program in Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 3 Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Running title Great apes and disease emergence # Corresponding author Fabian H. Leendertz - Emerging Zoonoses, Robert Koch-Institut - Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany - email address: leendertzf@rki.de – tel: +49(0)30187542592, fax: +49(0)30187542181