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SUBMITTER: Liu Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Zhiwei Z Sarathkumara Yomani D YD Chan John K C JKC Kwong Yok-Lam YL Lam Tai Hing TH Ip Dennis Kai Ming DKM Chiu Brian C-H BC Xu Jun J Su Yu-Chieh YC Proietti Carla C Cooper Martha M MM Yu Kelly J KJ Bassig Bryan B Liang Raymond R Hu Wei W Ji Bu-Tian BT Coghill Anna E AE Pfeiffer Ruth M RM Hildesheim Allan A Rothman Nathaniel N Doolan Denise L DL Lan Qing Q
Scientific reports 20211208 1
Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is an aggressive malignancy that has been etiologically linked to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, with EBV gene transcripts identified in almost all cases. However, the humoral immune response to EBV in NKTCL patients has not been well characterized. We examined the antibody response to EBV in plasma samples from 51 NKTCL cases and 154 controls from Hong Kong and Taiwan who were part of the multi-center, hospital-based AsiaLymph case-control ...[more]