[Pathoanatomical characteristics of pseudotuberculosis in Macaca mulatta].

Pathologo-anatomic investigations of organs of 81 monkeys who had died of pseudotuberculosis were carried out. The disease was characterized by pronounced polymorphism of changes with predominant lesions of the peritoneal cavity organs--the spleen, liver, intestinal and mesenterial lymphatic nodes. Granulomas appeared consisting of reticular cells with admixture of neurophilic, eosinophilic leucocytes with necrosis in the centre. Pseudotuberculosis in monkeys, as to its clinical and patho-anatomic features, has very much in common with that in man, however, in monkeys the disease has a much severer course and with a considerable per cent of fatal outcomes among the diseased animals.