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Science 28 May 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3674, pp. 1239 - 1240
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3674.1239
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Mosquito Transmission of a Reticulum Cell Sarcoma of Hamsters

William G. Banfield 1, Paul A. Woke 2, Carol M. MacKay 1, and Herbert L. Cooper 3

1 Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute
2 Laboratory of Tropical Virology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
3 Section on Cellular Biology and Cytogenetics, National Institute of Dental Research, Bethesda, Maryland

A transplantable reticulum cell sarcoma with leukemic manifestations can be transmitted from one hamster to another by means of a mosquito, Aëdes aegypti (L.). The transmission seems to be by a transfer of tumor cells, and not by passage of some other oncogenic agent.

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