How Should We Deal with Neoplastic Disease and Serious Infections Caused by Epstein-Barr Virus?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane 693-8501, Japan.
² National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
³ Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.

Editorial

Hironori Yoshiyama et al. Cancers (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 May 24;15(11):2889.

doi: 10.3390/cancers15112889.

¹ Department of Microbiology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Shimane 693-8501, Japan.
² National Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
³ Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.

Abstract

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus, but also the first discovered human tumor virus [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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