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Edited by John M. Coffin, Stephen H. Hughes, and Harold E. Varmus. 843 pp. Plainview, N.Y., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1997. $180. ISBN 0-87969-497-1.

Retrovirology is a mature yet rapidly evolving field, and this excellent book provides a very complete approach, integrating all the scientific aspects of the topic except epidemiology. Retrovirology started with the discovery at the turn of the century of tumor-associated viruses in chickens and continued with the identification of other tumor-associated viruses in a variety of animals, including mammals. At the beginning of the 1960s, progress in the study of cultured cells revealed that, although retroviruses have an RNA genome, they have replication and transformation properties that set them apart from other single-stranded RNA viruses, such as poliovirus. At that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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