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SIMIAN VACUOLATING VIRUS NO. 40

A little (40 to 45 nm) DNA virus of the genus Polyomavirus, family Papovaviridae; the reason of seemingly inapparent infections in monkeys, especially rhesus, and a general contaminant of monkey cell cultures; the virus may reason inapparent infection in humans and may be excreted in stools of children for different weeks; it can manufacture fibrosarcoma in suckling hamsters, and conversion may occur in human diploid cells; it may also form "hybrid" virus in cells also infected with determined adenoviruses. Synonym: simian virus 40.
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