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Saimiri monkeys were inoculated three times with hepatitis A virus and observed in a follow-up study for sixteen months. The monkeys developed recurrent hepatitis involving liver damage and cycles of HAV antigen shedding in stools. The relapses were presumably due to immune response effects.
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Prevot, S., Marechal, J., Piilot, J., Prevot, J. (1992). Relapsing hepatitis A in Saimiri monkeys experimentally reinfected with a wild type hepatitis A virus (HAV). In: De Bac, C., Taliani, G., Gerlich, W.H. (eds) Chronically Evolving Viral Hepatitis. Archives of Virology, vol 4. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-5633-9_2
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