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Experimental infection of monkeys with Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

M. F. Palmer ,
Sheena A. Waitkins ,
R. B. Fitzgeorge  and
A. Baskerville
M. F. Palmer
Affiliation:
Leptospira Reference Unit, County Hospital, Hereford, HR1 2ER, United Kingdom
Sheena A. Waitkins
Affiliation:
Leptospira Reference Unit, County Hospital, Hereford, HR1 2ER, United Kingdom
R. B. Fitzgeorge
Affiliation:
Experimental Pathology Laboratory, PHLS Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
A. Baskerville
Affiliation:
Experimental Pathology Laboratory, PHLS Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Grivet monkeys experimentally infected with two different strains of Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo showed no signs of severe clinical disease. There were no significant macroscopic lesions in any of the tissues examined, but the organisms were demonstrated in various tissues by immunofluorescent technique and were isolated from the blood and urine of two monkeys and the kidney of one. Abraded skin was shown to be a viable route of infection in non-human primates.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 191 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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