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Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses | Journal of Virology Tumor viruses, or viruses that are etiological agents of tumorigenesis and/or cancer, were first discovered in the early 20th century when Peyton Rous isolated a “filterable agent” from chicken sarcom... https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jvi.01691-25