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. 1987 Apr;98(2):191–197. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800061902

Experimental infection of monkeys with Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo.

M F Palmer, S A Waitkins, R B Fitzgeorge, A Baskerville
PMCID: PMC2235241  PMID: 3549342

Abstract

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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