Volume 73, Issue 6 pp. 489-504
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The ecology and pathology of Epstein-Barr virus

CHRISTOPHER W SCHMIDT

CHRISTOPHER W SCHMIDT

Queensland Institute of Medical Research, The Bancroft Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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IHOR S MISKO

IHOR S MISKO

Queensland Institute of Medical Research, The Bancroft Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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First published: December 1995
Citations: 15
Correspondence: Dr CW Schmidt, Queensland Institute of Medical Research. The Bancroft Centre, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia.

Summary

Epstein-Barr virus achieves its ubiquitous and uniform epidemiological distribution by a dual strategy of latency to guarantee lifelong persistence and intermittent replication to guarantee transmission. These two functions appear to dictate residence in different cell types: latency in B lymphocytes and replication in epithelial cells. Both of these cell compartments are potential sites for FBV-associated malignancies.

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