“…Subsequently, many examples of hit and run' have been reported, involving notably the herpes viruses, herpes simplex (HSV) McDougall, 1980, 1990;Bauer et al, 1992) and EpsteinBarr (EBV) viruses (Gri n and Karran, 1984;Karran et al, 1990;Yao et al, 1990;Lin et al, 1993;Delecluse et al, 1997;Wolf et al, 1995;Jox et al, 1997;Srinivas et al, 1998, reviewed, Ambinder, 2000, or on occasion cytomegalo (CMV) (Gelb and Dohner, 1984) or varicella zoster (VZV) (Iwasaka et al, 1992) viruses. Shen et al (1997) proposed that`hit and run' transformation by human papilloma (HPV) viruses might be a consequence of mutations induced in cellular genes.…”