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SUBCUTANEOUS tumours have developed in a colony of Indian rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) at the laboratories of the West African Council for Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria. We are using the word ‘tumour’ in a wide sense without any implication that the growths described are true neoplasms.
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BEARCROFT, W., JAMIESON, M. An Outbreak of Subcutaneous Tumours in Rhesus Monkeys. Nature 182, 195–196 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182195a0
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