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ALTHOUGH there is agreement that oncornaviruses infect and are associated with malignancies in mice, cats and chickens1, the evidence for oncornavirus infection in man remains controversial2. Similarly, antibodies to oncornavirus antigens have been detected in laboratory animals3–7, but there are few data indicating the presence of such antibodies in humans3,8,9. These findings suggest that man possesses a natural defence mechanism which inhibits or interferes with oncornavirus infection and replication. We report here evidence for such a mechanism.
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WELSH, R., COOPER, N., JENSEN, F. et al. Human serum lyses RNA tumour viruses. Nature 257, 612–614 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257612a0
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