Article
Multiple Epstein-Barr virus infections in healthy individuals.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2003
Walling Dennis M, Brown Abigail L, Etienne Wiguins, Keitel Wendy A, Ling Paul D
Abstract excerpt
We employed a newly developed genotyping technique with direct representational detection of LMP-1 gene sequences to study the molecular epidemiology of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in healthy individuals. Infections with up to five different EBV genotypes were found in two of nine individuals studied. These results support the hypothesis that multiple EBV infections of healthy individuals are common. The...
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