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DURING a search for antiviral materials, we found several Penicillium culture filtrates that inhibited the cytopathic effect of type 2 poliovirus MEF1 in monkey kidney primary cell cultures. The antipolio activity of these filtrates was found to be due to gliotoxin and gliotoxin acetate.
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RIGHTSEL, W., SCHNEIDER, H., SLOAN, B. et al. Antiviral Activity of Gliotoxin and Gliotoxin Acetate. Nature 204, 1333–1334 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041333b0
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