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Epstein-Barr virus is present in neoplastic cytotoxic T cells in extranodal, and predominantly in B cells in nodal T non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Aug 2000
Brink A A, ten Berge R L, van den Brule A J, Willemze R, Chott A, Meijer C J
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive T non-Hodgkin lymphomas (T-NHLs) have been described, but it is at present unknown how EBV infects T lymphocytes. It has been postulated that cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) or natural killer (NK) cells can be infected by EBV during the killing of an EBV-infected target cell. The objective of this study was therefore to determine whether the neoplastic cells in EBV-positive T-NHLs...
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