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Sur un filtre donnant de l’eau physiologiquement pure.

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C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 99, 247-48. 1884 CE.

Chamberland filter, an unglazed porcelain bar with pores smaller than bacteria, enabled the earliest distinction between viruses and bacteria and led in 1898 to the re-introduction of the Latin word "virus" with the infectious agent now named tobacco mosaic virus.

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