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Pathogens cooperate in lymphomagenesis

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The role of microbial pathogens in human cancer is a fertile area of research, with important implications for treatment. Two pathogens implicated in Burkitt's lymphoma have now been shown to directly interact with one another.

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Figure 1: Plasmodium falciparum–infected red blood cells (labeled red) bind tightly to human B lymphocytes (labeled green).

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  1. David A. Thorley-Lawson is in the Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA. david.thorley-lawson@tufts.edu,

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  2. Karen A. Duca is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.,

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