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Forty-seven strains of virus have been isolated from sterile long maintained tissue explants from chimpanzees suffering from experimental kuru. Many are new simian viruses, and none have been demonstrated to be a cause of the kuru syndrome.
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ROGERS, N., BASNIGHT, M., GIBBS, C. et al. Latent Viruses in Chimpanzees with Experimental Kuru. Nature 216, 446–449 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216446a0
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