BENIGN LEPTOSPIROSIS - THE PATHOLOGY OF EXPERIMENTAL-INFECTION OF MONKEYS WITH LEPTOSPIRA-INTERROGANS SEROVARS BALCANICA AND TARASSOVI

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 61  (2) , 124-131
Abstract
Grivet monkeys [Cercopithecus aethiops] experimentally infected with L. interrogans serovars balcanica and tarassovi showed no clinical disease, but severe meningoencephalitis was demonstrated histologically in animals killed 26 and 33 days after infection. The meningeal and perivascular reactions were exclusively lymphocytic. Mild focal lesions of degeneration and cellular infiltration were also present in the kidneys and femoral musculature.