[Changes in the respiratory organs in experimental adenovirus infection]

An experiment on 6 green monkeys and on 286 cotton newly born rats was made with the aim of studying the lung during experimental adenovirus infection. All the animals during different terms of infection (from 6 hours and up to 40 days) have been studied. Several morphological changes were discovered in the lungs of monkeys and rats after 6 hours of infection and were retained up to the 10-th day of infection. All the components of air-blood barrier and basal membranes were involved in the process, but after 20 day of the experimental adenovirus infection the entire restoration of cellular structure occurred.