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Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the human herpesvirus family and, like other herpesviruses, infects and establishes a persistent infection in the host. Clinically, primary infection with EBV ranges from a mild, self-limited illness in children to infectious mononucleosis in adolescents and adults. EBV has been linked to several malignant conditions in humans,¹ including the endemic (African) form of Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in patients with AIDS, Hodgkin's disease, and now, as described in separate reports in this issue of the Journal,^2,3 smooth-muscle tumors in immunosuppressed children. McClain et al.² found an association of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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