Man, monkeys and malaria.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
; 356(1410): 921-2, 2001 Jun 29.
Article
em En
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| ID: mdl-11405939
ABSTRACT
Bizarre though it may now seem, in the last century a whole series of experiments was conducted that involved injecting fresh monkey blood into human volunteers or patients. The reasons, valid at the time, were either to treat neurosyphilis with a relatively benign simian malaria infection (so-called pyrogen therapy), or to establish which monkey malaria species were potential zoonotic reservoirs of infection that then may have interfered with malaria eradication campaigns. Although direct inoculation of fresh blood is the most effective way of retroviruses as well as malaria parasites crossing the species barrier, this hypothesis was never taken up or researched. Unlikely, but not disproved, it is important to remember some of the more hazardous experiments that were done in good faith, too long ago to be recorded on electronic databases.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
2_ODS3
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3_ND
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transfusão de Sangue
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Pan troglodytes
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Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida dos Símios
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Haplorrinos
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Malária
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article