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Epstein-Barr virus infection and human malignancies
2001-06-01
Abstract excerpt
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a herpes virus which establishes a life-long persistent infection in over 90% of the human adult population world-wide. Based on its association with a variety of lymphoid and epithelial malignancies, EBV has been classified as a group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In this article we discuss the evidence supporting an aetiological role for EBV in t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2e1c89e0-4a67-5f74-bed1-5217574f7fb8
- DOI
- 10.1046/j.1365-2613.2001.00190.x
