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. 2006 Apr 5;9(1):43–44. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1999.tb00208.x

Is SV40 a tumorigenic human pathogen?

Gerald Stoner 1
PMCID: PMC8098504  PMID: 9989449

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