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EBV-infected B cells in infectious mononucleosis: viral strategies for spreading in the B cell compartment and establishing latency.
Immunity - 1 Oct 2000
Kurth J, Spieker T, Wustrow J, Strickler G J, Hansmann L M, Rajewsky K, Küppers R
Abstract excerpt
Infection of humans with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) may cause infectious mononucleosis (IM). Analysis of single EBV-infected cells from tonsils of IM patients for rearranged immunoglobulin genes revealed two strategies of EBV for rapid and massive spread in the B cell compartment: the direct infect...
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