| Literature DB >> 1325583 |
L C Chan1, G Srivastava, S Pittaluga, Y L Kwong, H W Liu, H L Yuen.
Abstract
Epstein Barr virus (EBV) DNA was detected in a monoclonal proliferation of T cells in a three-year-old girl who presented with a history of fever, hepatosplenomegaly, and generalised lymphadenopathy. The disease ran a rapid, fulminant course and the patient died 11 days after presentation. Examination of the blood showed a lymphocytosis of 50 x 10(9)/l with all the cells showing the morphology of large granular lymphocytes. These cells were CD2+3+8+25+. Cytogenetic studies showed the presence of a 6q- clone. Southern blotting and hybridisation with a constant region probe for the T-cell receptor (TCR) beta chain gene showed clonal rearrangement of the TCR beta gene. Hybridisation of the Southern blot to the EBV XhoI probe revealed a clonal pattern of episomal EBV DNA. Our results establish the association between clonal EBV infection to a malignant proliferation of peripheral blood CD8+ T cells.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1325583
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Leukemia ISSN： 0887-6924 Impact factor: 11.528