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The antibiotic rifampicin inhibits the growth of poxviruses and adenovirus and can prevent the maturation of infectious virus until quite late in the growth cycle. Drug resistant mutants of vaccinia have been isolated and this suggests that the virus genome codes for a protein concerned with the transcription of viral DNA.
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SUBAK-SHARPE, J., TIMBURY, M. & WILLIAMS, J. Rifampicin inhibits the Growth of Some Mammalian Viruses. Nature 222, 341–345 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222341a0
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