Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
Interest in the use of marmosets for experimental infectious disease has dramatically increased in the last decade. These animals are native to the Atlantic coastal forests in northeastern Brazil. The majority of experimental animals come from the National Primate Research Centers and other breeding...
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description | Interest in the use of marmosets for experimental infectious disease has dramatically increased in the last decade. These animals are native to the Atlantic coastal forests in northeastern Brazil. The majority of experimental animals come from the National Primate Research Centers and other breeding facilities. They are advantageous because of their relative small size, weighting 350–400 g as adults, their life span is compact compared with other nonhuman primate (NHP), and they produce offspring by 3 years of age. They are free of Herpes B virus and, it is believed, to date, other dangerous human pathogens (Abbot et al., 2003) [1]. We describe here the experimental infections of marmosets to human pathogens. While it is always interesting to compare various NHPs with each other, the importance of an animal model is always in comparing its similarities to human infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-71496262020-04-13 Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) Patterson, Jean L. Lanford, Robert E. The Common Marmoset in Captivity and Biomedical Research Article Interest in the use of marmosets for experimental infectious disease has dramatically increased in the last decade. These animals are native to the Atlantic coastal forests in northeastern Brazil. The majority of experimental animals come from the National Primate Research Centers and other breeding facilities. They are advantageous because of their relative small size, weighting 350–400 g as adults, their life span is compact compared with other nonhuman primate (NHP), and they produce offspring by 3 years of age. They are free of Herpes B virus and, it is believed, to date, other dangerous human pathogens (Abbot et al., 2003) [1]. We describe here the experimental infections of marmosets to human pathogens. While it is always interesting to compare various NHPs with each other, the importance of an animal model is always in comparing its similarities to human infections. 2019 2018-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7149626/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811829-0.00028-5 Text en Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Patterson, Jean L. Lanford, Robert E. Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
title | Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
title_full | Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
title_fullStr | Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
title_full_unstemmed | Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
title_short | Experimental Infections of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
title_sort | experimental infections of the common marmoset (callithrix jacchus) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149626/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811829-0.00028-5 |
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