| replication of sars coronavirus administered into the respiratory tract of african green, rhesus and cynomolgus monkeys. | sars coronavirus (sars-cov) administered intranasally and intratracheally to rhesus, cynomolgus and african green monkeys (agm) replicated in the respiratory tract but did not induce illness. the titer of serum neutralizing antibodies correlated with the level of virus replication in the respiratory tract (agm>cynomolgus>rhesus). moderate to high titers of sars-cov with associated interstitial pneumonitis were detected in the lungs of agms on day 2 and were resolving by day 4 post-infection. fol ... | 2004 | 15527829 |