The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 73, 453-459,
Copyright, 1941, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
EXPERIMENTAL POLIOMYELITIS IN CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS SABAEUS (THE GREEN AFRICAN MONKEY) BY ORAL AND OTHER ROUTES
James D. Trask M.D.1 and
John R. Paul M.D.1
1 From the Department of Pediatrics and the Section of Preventive Medicine of the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
The green African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, has been infected with experimental poliomyelitis after feeding artificially contaminated food. This species is also highly susceptible to intracerebral, intranasal, and intraabdominal inoculations. In one experiment with a human stool from a case of poliomyelitis, Cercopithecus was more susceptible to intranasal and to intraabdominal inoculation than Macaca mulatta.
Submitted on January 9, 1941