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Detection of a nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2)-variant Epstein-Barr virus strain in two siblings with fatal lymphoproliferative disease.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 1996
Schuster V, Seidenspinner S, Kreth H W
Abstract excerpt
An EBV type 1 variant strain was detected in two Turkish siblings (boy and girl), who both suffered and died from similar progressive Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphoproliferative disease. Molecular characterisation of this EBV isolate revealed a 51bp-deletion and six nucleotide changes within the Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2). Both isolates contained EBV type 2 sequences in the Epstein-Barr...
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