PPLO
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Confusion between viruses and PPLO, suggests Dr. J�rgen Fogh of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, may explain why many researchers, who have suspected viruses of causing some forms of human cancer, have assumed that the mysterious particles sometimes found in cancer cells were viruses when actually they were PPLO.
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