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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2014-01-01
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Series: | Emerging Microbes and Infections |
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Online Access: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2014.25 |