| Literature DB >> 10449607 |
B Ehlin-Henriksson1, J Z Zou, G Klein, I Ernberg.
Abstract
B lymphocytes have been identified as the main reservoir of latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in healthy virus carriers. We have established a semi-quantitative PCR method to estimate the EBV genome load in the blood B-cell subpopulation in healthy individuals. EBV DNA was detected in subfractionated IgM-, IgG- and IgA-positive B cells. Between 80% and 90% of the viral DNA was found in the IgA-positive compared with the IgA-negative fraction. Copyright 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10449607 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19990924)83:1<50::aid-ijc10>3.0.co;2-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cancer ISSN: 0020-7136 Impact factor: 7.396