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Nature Medicine 8, 559 - 560 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0602-559
Cell-switching and kissing
Paul J. Farrell1
- Director and Professor of Tumour Virology Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College St. Mary's Campus, London, UK e-mail: p.farrell@ic.ac.uk
Abstract
Epstein–Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis, the "kissing disease" and is linked to cancers of both B lymphocytes and epithelial cells. A new study suggests how the virus may exploit its host by switching infection from one cell type to the other. (pages 594–599)
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infects most of the world's population. Once infected, humans carry the virus for life in a small fraction of their B lymphocytes1.
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