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Transmission of Two Subacute Spongiform Encephalopathies of Man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease) to New World Monkeys

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Now that kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease have been transmitted to four species of New World monkeys, spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), capuchin monkeys (Cebus sp.), squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciurens), and woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothica), these more readily available animals may replace the chimpanzee in the laboratory study of these two subacute degenerative diseases of the human brain.

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GAJDUSEK, D., GIBBS, C. Transmission of Two Subacute Spongiform Encephalopathies of Man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease) to New World Monkeys. Nature 230, 588–591 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230588a0

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