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B-Virus ( Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1) Infection in Humans and Macaques: Potential for Zoonotic Disease
1 Feb 2003
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Nonhuman primates are widely used in biomedical research because of their genetic, anatomic, and physiologic similarities to humans. In this setting, human contact directly with macaques or with their tissues and fluids sometimes occurs. Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (B virus), an alphaherpesvirus endemic in Asian macaques, is closely related to herpes simplex virus (HSV). Most macaques carry B virus without overt...
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