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The transformation—as manifested by focus formation—of chick fibroblasts infected with Rous sarcoma virus is ten times more strongly suppressed by rifampicin than replication of the virus itself.
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DIGGELMANN, H., WEISSMANN, C. Rifampicin inhibits Focus Formation in Chick Fibroblasts infected with Rous Sarcoma Virus. Nature 224, 1277–1279 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241277a0
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