THE presence of viruses in the plasmas of laboratory animals with induced leukemia stimulated interest in attempts to find similar particles in the plasma of patients with leukemia. Previous reports have described "C"-type particles in the plasma of a small percentage of patients.1 , 2 These particles are characteristic of those known to be etiologically related to murine leukemia. The present report describes studies on a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with plasma that has persistently yielded a virus-like particle not previously described.Case ReportL.B. (N.I.H. 07–23–74), a 57-year-old woman, was well until January, 1964, when she was admitted to the . . .
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