title: Experimental kuru in the gibbon and sooty mangabey and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the pigtailed macaque. With a summary of the host range of the subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies.
abstract: The experimental host range for the slow virus infections causing subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies is enlarged in primates to include the gibbon for kuru, the pigtailed macaque for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and the sooty mangabey for both diseases. The report is based on neuropathological evidence of the diseases in animals with preclinical lesions. A table lists all the species to which the subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies have been transmitted.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D000882:Haplorhini; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D006922:Hylobates; D007729:Kuru / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D008251:Macaca; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000635:transmission*; D012897:Slow Virus Diseases / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*