SUBCUTANEOUS RABIES VACCINATION OF PIGTAIL MACAQUES

Nonhuman primates housed in outside cages in rabies enzootic areas sho uld be vaccinated against rabies because of the risk of exposure to ra bid wildlife. This article reports that vaccination with an inactivate d rabies vaccine for domestic animals induced levels of neutralizing a ntibodies against rabies in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina) witho ut causing adverse reactions.