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Severe Epstein-Barr virus infection in primary immunodeficiency and the normal host.
British journal of haematology - 1 Nov 2016
Worth Austen J J, Houldcroft Charlotte J, Booth Claire
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is ubiquitous in humans, but the majority of infections have an asymptomatic or self-limiting clinical course. Rarely, individuals may develop a pathological EBV infection with a variety of life threatening complications (including haemophagocytosis and malignancy) and others develop asymptomatic chronic EBV viraemia. Although an impaired ability to control EBV infection has...
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