PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Digiacomo, R F
AU  - Gale, J L
AU  - Wang, S P
AU  - Kiviat, M D
TI  - Chlamydial infection of the male baboon urethra.
AID  - 10.1136/sti.51.5.310
DP  - 1975 Oct 01
TA  - The British Journal of Venereal Diseases
PG  - 310--313
VI  - 51
IP  - 5
4099  - http://sti.bmj.com/content/51/5/310.short
4100  - http://sti.bmj.com/content/51/5/310.full
SO  - Br J Vener Dis1975 Oct 01; 51
AB  - Two adult male baboons (Papio cynocephalus) were infected by urethral catheter with a Type D strain of Chlamydia trachomatis isolated from a male patient with nongonococcal urethritis. Chlamydial organisms were shed from the urethra for about 90 days and serum antibody developed. Intraurethral re-inoculation of homologous and heterologous (Type I) strains of Chalmydia, 4 and 11 months later, resulted in relatively shorter periods of infection of less than 15 days. The antibody titres and type-specific patterns were not substantially influenced by re-infection.