RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS OF WILDLIFE MONKEYS FOR PRESENCE OF ANTI-SMALLPOX ANTIBODY AND VIRUSES OF SMALLPOX GROUP

  • 1 January 1975
    • journal article
    • research article
    • No. 3,p. 321-326
Abstract
The results are presented of examinations of sera, blood and organs of African and Asian monkeys [Macaca cynomolgus, M. mulatta, Papio papio, P. hamadryas, Erythrocebus patas, Cercopithecus aethiops] for antibody to smallpox and smallpox groups viruses. Significant titers of smallpox antibodies (antihemagglutinins virus-neutralizing and some precipitating antibody) were found in a considerable number of monkeys shot near foci with human cases (Equatorial province of Zaire Republic). In the same monkeys, kidney tissues yielded 3 isolates of smallpox virus group 2 which were indistinguishable in laboratory tests from variola virus. Smallpox viruses apparently circulate among wildlife monkeys in some areas of Equatorial Africa.

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