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Discovery of the First Human Retro-Giant Virus: Description of its morphology, retroviral kinase and ability to induce tumours in mice

2019-11-22

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<h4>Background</h4> The study of retroviruses dates back to the early 1900s during investigations on neoplastic diseases in chickens. Subsequently, Robert Gallo reported the first human retrovirus HLTV in 1980. What we report here is not an archetypal retrovirus, but the discovery of an oncogenic giant microbial agent with a mega-genome, where the transforming retroviral nature co-exists with multiple archaeal on...

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Literature Corpus work: 7470f687-070b-5778-b8fa-31dc76c67b24
DOI: 10.1101/851063

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