| Literature DB >> 1654072 |
S Gledhill1, A Gallagher, D B Jones, A S Krajewski, F E Alexander, E Klee, D H Wright, C O'Brien, D E Onions, R F Jarrett.
Abstract
Thirty-five cases of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were analysed for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) DNA. EBV genomes were detected in 11/35 cases while none of the cases was positive for HHV-6. Ten of the EBV-positive cases were subsequently analysed using a probe for the terminal region of the virus; the results suggested that the EBV-infected cells were clonally expanded. EBV subtypes specific DNA amplification was used to demonstrate that EBV subtype A, and not subtype B was present in the EBV-positive cases. The age distribution of the EBV-positive cases indicated a statistically significant trend for an increase in positivity with increasing age. This is the first indication that EBV is significantly associated with any subset of HD patients.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1654072 PMCID: PMC1977506 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1991.281
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640