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| Rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys Virus isolated only from clinically affected animals recently imported from New Delhi, India (1). Other species listed below have developed disease after contact with recently imported sick rhesus monkeys. Many virus isolations made of the Bethesda/64 agent (8). | Other monkey species affected: M. nemestrina (9,10); M. speciosa (1-3); M. assamensus (9,10); M. irus (1-3,11) with a disease similar to that seen in M. mulatta. | * Isolate differs antigenically and biologically from prototype SHF virus (13) | | Erythrocebus patas (monocytes) (Chronically infected, continuously viremic) | 1 * | | NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (13) |
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