Isolation and Characterization of a Herpeslike (Hsiung-Kaplow) Virus from Guinea Pigs

Autor: Pravin N. Bhatt, Albert M. Jonas, D. H. Percy, Joseph L. Craft
Rok vydání: 1971
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Zdroj: Journal of Infectious Diseases. 123:178-189
ISSN: 1537-6613
0022-1899
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/123.2.178
Popis: Recently, Hsiung and Kaplow reported the isolation of a herpeslike agent from strain 2, but not from strain 13 or from "Hartley strain," guinea pigs [1]. Since strain 2 guinea pigs are highly susceptible to transmissible acute lymphoblastic leukemia (LoC) [2], it was inferred that there may be a causal relationship between the herpeslike agent and the leukemia. In June, 1967, we established colonies of strains 2 and 13 guinea pigs in our laboratory; the original animals were obtained from Dr. Maurice
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