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Science 22 January 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3968, pp. 297 - 298
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3968.297
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Genital Herpesvirus Hominis Type 2 Infection: An Experimental Model in Cebus Monkeys

A. J. Nahmias 1, W. T. London 2, L. W. Catalano 2, D. A. Fuccillo 2, J. L. Sever 2, and C. Graham 3

1 Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
2 Perinatal Research Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
3 Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta

Genital infection with herpesvirus hominis type 2 was established in ten female cebus monkeys. Clinical and laboratory findings in the cebus mimic closely those observed in humans, thus providing an experimental model which may be used in the study of the possible role of genital herpetic infection in cervical cancer and in perinatal and chronic neurological diseases.

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