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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the etiologic agent of infectious mononucleosis, has a clearly established association with endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL), nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and secondary B-cell proliferations in immunosuppressed individuals [1,2]. Epidemiologic studies have linked Hodgkin’s disease (HD), which accounts for 30–50% of malignant lymphomas in Western countries, to previous infectious mononucleosis [3]. Increased EBV-specific antibody titers were frequently observed in HD patients [4,6]. Recently, DNA filter hybridization studies pointed to an association of EBV with up to 20% of isolated cases of HD [7,9]. In EBV-positive HD cases studied in more detail, the viral DNA was monoclonal in origin and confined to Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (H and RS) cells that constitute the malignant cell population of HD [10,11]. However, since H and RS cells often account for less than 1% of the total cell number in HD-afflicted lymph nodes, it is possible that EBV escaped detection by filter hybridization methods in many HD cases. Therefore, we screened 198 HD cases, 151 non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), and 34 non-malignant lymph node biopsies, all of which were clinically unrelated to HIV-infection, with the highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) [12].
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Hummel, M. et al. (1991). Detection of Epstein-Barr Virus Genomes in Lymphoproliferative Diseases. In: Rolfs, A., Schumacher, H.C., Marx, P. (eds) PCR Topics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75924-6_27
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