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Who discovered interferon?

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Isaacs and Lindenmann
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Holmes and Knight
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Hershey and Chase
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Enders
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The correct option is A Isaacs and Lindenmann
G.M. Findley and McCallum (1937) reported a phenomenon, called viral interference in which the cell infected with one type of virus becomes reisstant to superinfection by other viruses. Alliac Issacs and Lindeman (1957) gave the term interferons to the chemical substances responsible for the viral inference.

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