Article
Tissue distribution of Epstein-Barr virus genotypes in hosts coinfected by HIV.
AIDS (London, England) - 12 Nov 1998
Triantos D, Leao J C, Porter S R, Scully C M, Teo C G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In healthy people, oral and pharyngeal epithelium preferentially carries Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) belonging to a genotype that possesses three copies of a 29 base-pair repeat in the first intron of the BZLF-1 gene, while peripheral blood mostly carries a genotype that bears two copies...
Topics
- Blood Cells
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Epithelial Cells
- Genes, Viral
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seronegativity
- HIV Seropositivity
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Leukoplakia, Hairy
- Organ Specificity
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Tongue