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Recovery of strains of the polyomavirus SV40 from rhesus monkey kidney cells dating from the 1950s to the early 1960s.
Virology - 5 Jan 2008
Peden Keith, Sheng Li, Omeir Romelda, Yacobucci Maureen, Klutch Michael, Laassri Majid, Chumakov Konstantin, Pal Achintya, Murata Haruhiko, Lewis Andrew M
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From stocks of adenovirus and poliovirus prepared in primary rhesus macaque kidney cells and dating from 1956 to 1961, the time when SV40 contaminated some poliovirus vaccine lots, we have recovered ten isolates of SV40. Of these ten isolates, based on the C-terminal region of T antigen, five novel strains of SV40 have been identified. Additionally, three pairs of isolates were found to be the same strain: one...
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