| Literature DB >> 19793451 |
Nicholas W Lerche1, Joe H Simmons.
Abstract
Macaque models have contributed to key advances in our basic knowledge of behavior, anatomy, and physiology as well as to our understanding of a wide variety of human diseases. This issue of Comparative Medicine focuses on several of the viral agents (members of Retroviridae, Herpesviridae and 2 small DNA viruses) that can infect both nonhuman primates and humans as well as confound research studies. Featured articles also address the challenges of developing colonies of macaques and other nonhuman primates that are truly specific pathogen-free for these and other adventitious infectious agents.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 19793451 PMCID: PMC2703162
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Comp Med ISSN: 1532-0820 Impact factor: 0.982