Article
Detection of distinct Epstein-Barr virus genotypes in NPC biopsies from southern Chinese and Caucasians.
International journal of cancer - 19 Aug 1992
Lung M L, Chang G C
Abstract excerpt
Using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to analyze paraffin sections from 12 Caucasian patients, we detected only the prototype F Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in 10 specimens from patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). This is in contrast to the higher frequency of association of "f" variant...
Topics
- Asian People
- Base Sequence
- Biopsy
- Carcinoma
- China
- Genotype
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
- White People