Mason-Pfizer monkey virus
"Mason-Pfizer monkey virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of BETARETROVIRUS isolated from mammary carcinoma in rhesus monkeys. It appears to have evolved from a recombination between a murine B oncovirus and a primate C oncovirus related to the baboon endogenous virus. Several serologically distinct strains exist. MPMV induces SIMIAN AIDS.
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D016093
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.613.807.124.520 B04.613.807.805.550 B04.820.650.124.520 B04.820.650.805.550
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