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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. Whether EBV shows differential tropism in HIV-1-coinfected hosts, who are prone to develop oral hairy leukoplakia,...
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