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Reactions between an Insect Picornavirus and Naturally Occurring IgM Antibodies in Several Mammalian Species

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Domestic and wild animals have IgM antibodies which react with insect viruses. Infection by agents sharing common antigens with the insect viruses could account for this phenomenon.

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  1. Natural Environment Research Council, Unit of Invertebrate Virology, University of Oxford,

    J. F. LONGWORTH, J. S. ROBERTSON & T. W. TINSLEY

  2. Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright, Surrey

    D. J. ROWLANDS & F. BROWN

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LONGWORTH, J., ROBERTSON, J., TINSLEY, T. et al. Reactions between an Insect Picornavirus and Naturally Occurring IgM Antibodies in Several Mammalian Species. Nature 242, 314–316 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242314a0

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