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The epidemiology of EBV and its association with malignant disease

Henrik Hjalgrim  1 , Jeppe Friborg  1 , Mads Melbye  1
Ann Arvin  1 , Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume  2 , Edward Mocarski  3 , Patrick S. Moore  4 , Bernard Roizman  5 , Richard Whitley  6 , Koichi Yamanishi  7
, editors.
In: Human Herpesviruses: Biology, Therapy, and Immunoprophylaxis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2007. Chapter 53.
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The epidemiology of EBV and its association with malignant disease

Henrik Hjalgrim et al.
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an ancient virus, and has probably coevolved with its different hosts over the last 90–100 million years (McGeoch et al., 1995). With the ability to establish lifelong latency and intermittent reactivation after primary infection and with limited clinical symptoms in the majority of infected individuals, EBV has become ubiquitous in all human populations

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