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Clonal expansion of multiphenotypic Epstein-Barr virus-infected lymphocytes in chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2004
Endo Rika, Yoshioka Mikio, Ebihara Takashi, Ishiguro Nobuhisa, Kikuta Hideaki, Kobayashi Kunihiko
Abstract excerpt
Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has been recognized as clonal non-neoplastic lymphoproliferative diseases. However, some reports of cases with a multiphenotypic expansion of EBV-infected lymphocytes give rise to questions of how EBV infects multiphenotypic lymphocytes and whether chronic active EBV infection is a truly monoclonal lymphoproliferative disease. We report two patients with chronic...
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