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Review
. 2002 Dec;2(12):957-64.
doi: 10.1038/nrc947.

SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or causality?

Adi F Gazdar  1 , Janet S Butel, Michele Carbone
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SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or causality?

Adi F Gazdar et al. Nat Rev Cancer. 2002 Dec.

Abstract

An increasing number of scientific reports have described evidence for a polyomavirus, simian virus 40, in a highly select group of human tumours. How did a simian virus infect humans and is the virus a passenger in tumours or is it important in their pathogenesis?

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