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Identification of the site of Epstein-Barr virus persistence in vivo as a resting B cell
1 Jul 1997
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr (EBV) is a powerful immortalizing virus for human B lymphocytes in vitro and is associated with several human neoplasias in vivo. Previously, we have shown that the majority of EBV-infected cells in the peripheral blood of healthy, persistently infected individuals do not express the activated phenotype, e.g., high levels of cell surface CD23 and CD80 (B7), characteristically expressed on in...
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