Clinical and experimental amyotrophic leukospongiosis (progressive spinal amyotrophy)
Votiakov, V.I.; Protas, I.I.; Nedz'ved', M.K.; Rytik, P.G.; Antonov, I.P.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 85(3): 330-333
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 3993291 Document Number: 258177
The authors succeeded in reproducing amyotrophic leukospongiosis in experiments on two squirrel monkeys 16-23 months after challenge with cerebral suspension obtained at autopsy from a human patient. The clinico-morphological studies showed the similarity of the disease in humans and monkeys. A previously unknown agent belonging by its properties to "slow" viruses was isolated. The successful reproduction of amyotrophic leukospongiosis under experimental conditions proved its infectious nature.