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Influence of EBV on the peripheral blood memory B cell compartment.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Sept 2007
Souza Tatyana A, Stollar B David, Sullivan John L, Luzuriaga Katherine, Thorley-Lawson David A
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Peripheral blood memory B cells latently infected with EBV bear somatic mutations and are typically isotype switched consistent with being classical Ag-selected memory B cells. In this work, we performed a comparative analysis of the expressed Ig genes between large sets of EBV-infected and uninfected peripheral blood B cells, isolated from the same infectious mononucleosis patients, to determine whether...
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