Article
Epstein-Barr virus genotypes in AIDS-associated lymphomas are similar to those in endemic Burkitt's lymphomas.
Leukemia - 1 Sept 1992
Goldschmidts W L, Bhatia K, Johnson J F, Akar N, Gutiérrez M I, Shibata D, Carolan M, Levine A, Magrath I T
Abstract excerpt
PCR was used to screen EBV-positive lymphomas from endemic and sporadic Burkitt's lymphoma patients, including EBV-positive lymphomas derived from patients with HIV infection. Only 10% of sporadic lymphomas from either North America (1/15) or South America (2/14) were associated with the type 2 EBV strain, whereas 50% (8/16) of lymphomas from equatorial Africa and 46% (10/22) of HIV-associated lymphomas were...
Topics
- Africa
- Base Sequence
- Burkitt Lymphoma
- Genotype
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Lymphoma, AIDS-Related
- Molecular Sequence Data
- North America
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- South America