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The genome of Epstein-Barr virus type 2 strain AG876.
Virology - 20 Jun 2006
Dolan Aidan, Addison Clare, Gatherer Derek, Davison Andrew J, McGeoch Duncan J
Abstract excerpt
Two Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) types are known, EBV1 and EBV2, which possess substantially diverged alleles for latency genes EBNA-2, EBNA-3A, EBNA-3B and EBNA-3C but are thought to be otherwise similar. We report the first complete EBV2 genome sequence, for strain AG876, as 172,764 bp. The sequence was interpreted as containing at least 80 protein coding genes. Comparison with the published EBV1 sequence...
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