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The Susceptibility of the Higher Primates to Piroplasms
Author(s) -
GARNHAM P. C. C.,
BRAY R. S.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
the journal of protozoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.067
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1550-7408
pISSN - 0022-3921
DOI - 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1959.tb04383.x
Subject(s) - biology , virology , immunology , zoology
SYNOPSIS. The chimpanzee is shown to behave like man to infection with Babesia divergens or bovis : the intact animal is totally resistant, whereas the splenectomized animal develops a fulminating infection accompanied by blackwater. The splenectomized rhesus monkey reacts in the same way also, but splenectomized rabbits are insusceptible. In the chimpanzee the typical accolé position of the “ divergens ” organisms (as seen in cattle) is absent, but occurs in the rhesus. It is suggested that latent piroplasmosis in man may exist on a large scale in rural populations in infected localities.