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CIUFFO, Giuseppe

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Innesto positivo con filtrato de verruca volgare.

G. ital. Mal. vener. 42, 12-17, 1907.

Ciuffo presented the first demonstration that a cell-free agent could induce a human tumor. He induced human warts on his own hand with a bacteria-free filtrate (a virus) prepared from excised wart tissue. The significance of this finding was not recognized at the time. 



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY › Specific Dermatoses, VIROLOGY