Publication Date:
1997-06-27
Description:
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human lymphocryptovirus that causes infectious mononucleosis, persists asymptomatically for life in nearly all adults, and is associated with the development of B cell lymphomas and nasopharyngeal carcinomas. A highly similar rhesus lymphocryptovirus naturally endemic in rhesus monkeys was used to orally infect naive animals from a pathogen-free colony. This animal model reproduced key aspects of human EBV infection, including oral transmission, atypical lymphocytosis, lymphadenopathy, activation of CD23(+) peripheral blood B cells, sustained serologic responses to lytic and latent EBV antigens, latent infection in the peripheral blood, and virus persistence in oropharyngeal secretions. This system may be useful for studying the pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of EBV infection and associated oncogenesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Moghaddam, A -- Rosenzweig, M -- Lee-Parritz, D -- Annis, B -- Johnson, R P -- Wang, F -- CA65319/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA68051/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P51RR00168/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Jun 27;276(5321):2030-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9197263" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Viral/blood
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B-Lymphocytes/immunology/virology
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Cell Line
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DNA, Viral/analysis
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*Disease Models, Animal
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*Herpesviridae Infections/immunology/pathology/virology
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*Herpesvirus 4, Human
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Humans
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Immunoenzyme Techniques
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*Lymphocryptovirus/immunology/isolation & purification
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Lymphocyte Activation
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*Macaca mulatta
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Mouth/virology
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Oropharynx/virology
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Receptors, IgE/blood
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Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms
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*Tumor Virus Infections/immunology/pathology/virology
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Virus Latency
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Virus Shedding
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
