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The first recognition of seriously contaminated biological products occurred almost 100 years ago. More recently, in the second half of this century, the potential for contamination by viral and viral-like agents became obvious when the SV-40 virus was identified as an endogenous agent in the cell cultures used to produce polio vaccines. The history of major contamination incidents is reviewed, and current issues are discussed.
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Petricciani, J.C. (1998). An overview of viral and viral-like agents in cell culture systems. In: Betenbaugh, M.J., Chalmers, J.J., Arathoon, R., Chaplen, F.W.R., Mastrangelo, A.J. (eds) Cell Culture Engineering VI. Current Applications of Cell Culture Engineering, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4786-6_6
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