SV40 and SV40-like viruses as possible risk factors.
SV 40 and its derivatives are highly suspicious of being risk factors involved in the development of certain intracranial tumors. Therefore further activities should be undertaken to prove or to disregard this suspicion especially with respect to the world-wide man-made dissemination of SV 40 among the human population.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004340:Drug Contamination; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D007223:Infant; D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral / Q000009:adverse effects; D012306:Risk; D013539:Simian virus 40 / Q000276:immunology / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D004279:DNA, Viral; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral