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SEVERAL oncogenic viruses have been known and studied for some years1 and it is therefore important to search for viruses as aetiological agents in human cancers. Only two benign human tumours, the common wart and molluscum contagiosum, have so far been proved to have a viral aetiology2. Virus-like particles have been found in human malignancies only rarely, chiefly in leukaemias and lymphomas3.
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MA, M., BLACKBURN, C. Virus-like Particles in a Human Primary Hepatocarcinoma. Nature 212, 854–855 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212854a0
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