[Relations between malaria and Burkitt's lymphoma]
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French]
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[Relations between malaria and Burkitt's lymphoma]
[Article in
French]
Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales.
1977 May-Jun.
Abstract
Malaria, especially forest malaria, is the environmental factor which creates endemic conditions for the Esptein-Barr virus related Burkitt's lymphoma. The Plasmodium seems active through a mitogenic factor rather than through the so often invoked immunological depresssion.
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