The Search for Viruses as Etiological Agents in Leukemia and Malignant Lymphomas: The Role of the Happy Accident and the Prepared Mind

Cancer Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1980, Pages 3405-3407

  Gross, Ludwik ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIOLOGY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; DNA TUMOR VIRUSES; FISHES; HAMSTERS; HAPLORHINI; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMAN; HYLOBATES; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MICE; MINK; RATS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROVIRIDAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0018967716     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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