An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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A transmissible tumor-like condition in rabbits.

J. exp. Med. 56, 793-802, 1932.

Shope papilloma virus (SPV), a benign infectious tumor due to a virus. This was the first mammalian tumor virus discovered. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

See also Shope, "Infectious Papillomatosis of Rabbits with a note on the histopathology". The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 58 (1933) 607–624, the full text of which is also available from PubMedCentral.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, PATHOLOGY › Histopathology, VIROLOGY
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