The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 54, 129-144,
Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
PSITTACOSIS
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IV. EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED INFECTIONS IN MONKEYS
T. M. Rivers M.D.1 and
G. P. Berry M.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
The virus of psittacosis inoculated intratracheally or intranasally in monkeys produces a pneumonia similar to that caused by the same active agent in man.
Intracerebral inoculation of the virus induces a meningo-encephalitis characterized principally by a mononuclear reaction in the meninges.
Indirect evidence has been adduced to show that the portal of entry of the virus in man is the upper respiratory tract.
Submitted on March 31, 1931