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EPIZOOTICS caused by polyoma virus have been reported1,2 in mouse colonies maintained in proximity to mice infected experimentally with this virus. Establishments without facilities to house infected and uninfected mice in separate buildings run the risk of contaminating their polyoma-free stock. It was of interest to determine, therefore, whether similar problems would be encountered when the Syrian hamster was used as the experimental animal to study this disease. Our experience indicates that infected hamsters rarely transmit polyoma virus to other hamsters or mice. The evidence that polyoma infection is a much less contagious disease of hamsters than of mice is shown by the following experiments.
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ROIZMAN, B., ROANE, P. Polyoma Virus in Syrian Hamsters: a Non-communicable Infection. Nature 188, 1134 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881134a0
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