1. Current reviews
     
    1. Stratton, K., Almario, D., McCormick, M., IMMUNIZATION SAFETY REVIEW, SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies(October 2002)
       
    2. Gazdar, A., Butel, J., Carbone, M., SV40 and human tumours: myth, association or casuality?, Nature Reviews(December 2002)
       
    3. Wong, M., Pagano, J., Schiller, J., Tevethia, S., Raab-Traub, N., Gruber, J., New Associations of Human Papillomavirus, Simian Virus 40, and Epstein-Barr Virus with Human Cancer, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 24 (December 18 2002)
       
  2. Current literature
     
    1. Murthy, S.S., Testa, J.R., Asbestos, Chromosomal Deletions, and Tumor Suppressor Gene Alterations in Human Malignant Mesothelioma. J.Cell. Physiol., 180: 150-157 (1999)
       
    2. Butel, J. and Lednicky J., Cell and molecular biology of simian virus 40: implications for human infections and disease. J. National Cancer Inst., 91: 119-134, 1999
       
    3. Carbone, M., Simian Virus 40 and Human Tumors: It is Time to Study Mechanisms. J.Cell. Biochemistry, 76: 189-193 (1999)
       
    4. Shivapurkar, N., Wiethege, T., Wistuba, I., Salomon, E., Milchgrub, S, Muller, K., Churg, A, Pass, H. and Gazdar, A., Presence of Simian Virus 40 Sequences in Malignant Mesotheliomas and Mesothelial Cell Proliferatios. J.Cell. Biochemistry, 76: 181-188 (1999)
       
    5. Waheed, Guo, Chen, Welser,Nguyen, and Schrump, Antisense to SV40 early gene region induces growth arrest and apoptosis in T-Antigen - positive human pleural mesothelioma cells. Cancer Research 59, 6068-6073, 1999.
       
    6. Carbone, M., Fisher, S., Powers, A., Pass, H.I., and Rizzo, P. New molecular and epidemiological issues in mesotheliomas: role of SV40. J. Cell. Physiol., 180: 167-172, 1999.
       
    7. Carbone, M., Rizzo, P., Pass HI, 1997a. Simian virus 40, poliovaccines, and human tumors: a review of recent developments. Oncogene 15:1877-1888.
       
    8. Bergsagel D.J., Finegold M.J., Butel J.S. et al. DNA sequences similar to those of simian virus 40 in ependymomas and choroids plexus tumor of childhood. N. Engl J Med 1992; 326: 988-993.
       
    9. Carbone M, Pass H.I., Rizzo P et al. Simian virus 40-like DNA sequences in human pleural mesothelioma. Oncogene 1994; 9: 1781-1790.
       
    10. Carbone M, Rizzo P., Procopio A. et al. SV40-like sequences in human bone tumors. Oncogene 1996; 13: 527-535.
       
    11. Lednicky J.A., Garcea R.L., Bersagel D.J. Natural Simian Virus 40 Strains are Present in Human Choroid Plexus and Ependymoma tumors. Virology 1995: 212: 710-717.
       
    12. Ben-Ezra J, Johnson D.A., Rossi J et al. Effect of fixation on the amplification of neculeic acids from paraffin embedded material by the polymerase chain reaction. J. Histochem Cytochem 1991; 39: 351-354.
       
    13. Rizzo P, DiResta I, Powers A, Rattner H, and Carbone M. Unique strains of SV 40 in commercial poliovaccines from 1955 not readily identifiable with current testing for SV 40 infection. Cancer Res. 59:60103-6108, 1999

     
  3. The Workshop on Simian Virus 40 (SV40): A Possible Human Polyomavirus Workshop - January 1997 (partial listing)
     
    1. Detection of Authentic SV40 DNA Sequences in Human brain and Bone tumors (J.S. Butel, S. Jafar, A.R. Stewart, J.A. Lednicky)
       
    2. Evidence for and Implications of SV40-like Sequences in Human Mesotheliomas and Osteosarcomas (P. Rizzo, I. DiResta, R. Stach, L. Mutti, P. Picci, W. M. Kast, H. I. Pas, M. Carbone)
       
    3. SV40DNA Sequences in Mesotheliomas (A.R. Gibbs, B. Jasani, C. Pepper, H Navabi, D. Wynford-Thomas)
       
    4. Simian Virus 40-like DNA Sequences and large-T Antigen - Retinoblastoma Family Protein pRb2/p130 Interaction in Human Mesothelioma (L Mutti, A. De Luca, P.P. Claudio, G. Convertino, M. Carbone, A Giordano)
       
    5. Simian Virus 40 Footprints in Normal Human Tissues, Brain and Bone Tumours of Different Histotypes (F. Martini, L. Lazzarin, L. Iaccheri, A. Corallini, M. Gerosa, C Trabanelli, N. Calza, G. Barbanti-Brodano, M. Tognon)
       
    6. Search for SV 40 in Human Mesotheliomas (KV. Shah)

     
  4. Historical Documents on SV40
     
    1. Sweet B.H and Hilleman M.E. Detection of a "non-detectable" simian virus (vacuolating agent) present in rhesus and cynomolgus monkey-kidney cell culture material. A preliminary report. In: Second International Conference on Live Poliovirus Vaccines. 1960. Washington, D.D: Pan American Health Organization and the World Health organization.
       
    2. Sweet B.H., Hilleman M.R. The vacuolating virus, SV40. Proc Soc Exp boil Med 1960; 105; 420-27.
       
    3. Melnick J.L., Tinebaugh S Excretion of vacuolating contaminant of oral poliovaccine. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med, 1962; 109; 965-968.
       
    4. Girardi A.J., Sweet B.H., Slotnick V.B. et al. Development of tumors in hamsters inoculated in the neonatal period with vacuolating virus, SV40. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1962; 109: 649-660.
       
    5. Girardi A.J., Sweet B.H. and Hilleman M.R. Factors influencing tumor induction in hamsters by vacuolating virus SV 40. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med, 1963; 112: 662-667.
       
    6. Eddy B.E., Borman G.S., Berkely W.H. et al. Tumors induced in hamsters by injection of rhesus monkey cell extracts. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1961; 107: 191-197
       
    7. Gerber P., Kirschstein R.L., SV40-induced ependymoma in newborn hamsters. Virology, 1962; 18: 582-588.