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The dominance of China 1 in the spectrum of Epstein-Barr virus strains from Cantonese patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2009
Li Da-Jiang, Bei Jin-Xin, Mai Shi-Juan, Xu Jin-Fen, Chen Li-Zhen, Zhang Ru-Hua, Yu Xing-Juan, Hong Ming-Huang, Zeng Yi-Xin, Kang Tiebang
Abstract excerpt
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a disease with a remarkable geographic and ethnic distribution, and has a high incidence in southern China. Infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an important contributing factor. The profile of EBV strains in Cantonese patients from Guangdong, the nasopharyngeal carcinoma endemic region in southern China, is described on the sequence variations in latent membrane protein 1...
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