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. 1980 Apr;61(2):124–131.

Benign leptospirosis: the pathology of experimental infection of monkeys with Leptospira interrogans serovars balcanica and tarassovi.

R B Marshall, A BAskerville, P Hambleton, G D Adams
PMCID: PMC2041522  PMID: 6775660

Abstract

Grivet monkeys experimentally infected with Leptospira 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.

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