The saga of XMRV: a virus that infects human cells but is not a human virus

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) was discovered in 2006 in a search for a viral etiology of human prostate cancer (PC). Substantial interest in XMRV as a potentially new pathogenic human retrovirus was driven by reports that XMRV could be detected in a significant percentage of...

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Main Authors: Maribel Arias, Hung Fan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-01-01
Series:Emerging Microbes and Infections
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2014.25