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J Exp Med. 1930 Oct 31;52(5):701-16. doi: 10.1084/jem.52.5.701.

STUDIES IN THE COMMON COLD : IV. EXPERIMENTAL TRANSMISSION OF THE COMMON COLD TO ANTHROPOID APES AND HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF A FILTRABLE AGENT.

The Journal of experimental medicine

A R Dochez, G S Shibley, K C Mills

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and the Presbyterian Hospital, New York.

PMID: 19869798 PMCID: PMC2131904 DOI: 10.1084/jem.52.5.701

Abstract

1. Chimpanzees are highly suitable animals for the experimental study of human upper respiratory infections. 2. Human colds have been successfully transmitted to apes and human volunteers in 44 per cent of instances tried by means of filtered nasal washings obtained from colds. 3. Certain types of infectious colds are caused by a filtrable agent.

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