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Nature Medicine  4, 391 - 392 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0498-391

Retroviral zoonoses

Robin A. Weiss

Chester Beatty Laboratories Institute of Cancer Research Fulham Road London, SW3 6JB, UK.

Humans exposed to simian retroviruses can occasionally become infected, but the real concern is whether human to human spread will occur, as in AIDS (pages 403−407).

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