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  • Title: Airsacculitis in the baboon.
    Author: Lewis JC, Montgomery CA, Hildebrandt PK.
    Journal: J Am Vet Med Assoc; 1975 Oct 01; 167(7):662-4. PubMed ID: 809399.
    Abstract:
    A baboon (Papio anubis) that had been given opiate compounds through an indwelling catheter developed mucopurulent airsacculitis. After a prolonged course, the infection was eventually controlled by medical and surgical means. Air-sac involvement, though rarely reported in nonhuman primates, appeared frequently in the group of baboons to which this subject belonged--all of which were being treated experimentally with opiates. Proposed explanations for this unusual incidence included the propensity of opiates to induce a histamine response, almost continuous contamination of pathogenic bacteria in the indwelling catheters, and a suggested anatomic predisposition of the baboon larynx to drain secretions into the air sac.
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