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Simian virus 40 in humans

Overview of attention for article published in Infectious Agents and Cancer, July 2007
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 615)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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Title
Simian virus 40 in humans
Published in
Infectious Agents and Cancer, July 2007
DOI 10.1186/1750-9378-2-13
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Authors

Fernanda Martini, Alfredo Corallini, Veronica Balatti, Silvia Sabbioni, Cecilia Pancaldi, Mauro Tognon

Abstract

Simian virus 40 (SV40) is a monkey virus that was administered to human populations by contaminated vaccines which were produced in SV40 naturally infected monkey cells. Recent molecular biology and epidemiological studies suggest that SV40 may be contagiously transmitted in humans by horizontal infection, independently from the earlier administration of SV40-contaminated vaccines.SV40 footprints in humans have been found associated at high prevalence with specific tumor types such as brain and bone tumors, mesotheliomas and lymphomas and with kidney diseases, and at lower prevalence in blood samples from healthy donors. Contrasting reports appeared in the literature on the circulation of SV40 in humans by contagious transmission and its association, as a possible etiologic cofactor, with specific human tumors. As a consequence of the conflicting results, a considerable debate has developed in the scientific community. In the present review we consider the main results obtained by different groups investigating SV40 sequences in human tumors and in blood specimens, the putative role of SV40 in the onset/progression of specific human tumors, and comment on the hypotheses arising from these data.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 56 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 16%
Student > Master 9 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 16%
Researcher 6 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 9%
Other 12 21%
Unknown 7 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 19%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 5%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 9 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 176. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2024.
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#231,793
of 25,591,967 outputs
Outputs from Infectious Agents and Cancer
#8
of 615 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#290
of 79,470 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Infectious Agents and Cancer
#2
of 4 outputs
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