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WHILE studying the interactions between germ cells and viruses, it was observed that spermatozoa of some mammalian and avian species were agglutinated by members of the myxovirus group. This phenomenon was designated as spermagglutination in analogy with haemagglutination. It was further observed that spermatozoa adsorbed to cells which were producing virus in vitro; this was called “spermadsorption”. This communication describes these two phenomena as well as the conditions under which they occurred.
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PELEG, B., IANCONESCU, M. Spermagglutination and Spermadsorption due to Myxoviruses. Nature 211, 1211–1212 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111211a0
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