Endogenous Retroviruses in Xenografts
- 14 January 1993
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 328 (2) , 142-143
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199301143280218
Abstract
Pressed by the increasing shortage of human organs, we are rapidly moving toward the use of xenografts from pigs or nonhuman primates. We must ask whether endogenous animal retroviruses pose any public health risk when transplanted into a human host.Keywords
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