| Literature DB >> 1651058 |
C F Wright1, A H Reid, M M Tsai, K M Ventre, P J Murari, G Frizzera, T J O'Leary.
Abstract
The authors examined paraffin-embedded lymph node biopsies from 65 cases of Hodgkin's disease for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA, using the highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction technique. Overall 40% of the cases were positive for EBV DNA; there were no statistically significant differences in the frequency of EBV positivity among the different subtypes of Hodgkin's disease. These results are in agreement with those of previous studies that employed less sensitive detection techniques and suggest that EBV either is present in pathologic tissues only in some phases of the evolution of Hodgkin's disease or is a pathogenetic factor involved in only a portion of cases.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1651058 PMCID: PMC1886073
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Pathol ISSN: 0002-9440 Impact factor: 4.307