Prevalence of the Taiwan variant of the Epstein-Barr virus in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients and normal individuals

Chinese Medical Journal (Taipei)

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 288-293

  Shu, Chih Hung ^a   Tu, Tzon Yang ^b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Epstein Barr virus; Latent membrane protein 1; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; XhoI restriction enzyme

Indexed keywords

DNA; LATENT MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TAIWAN; VIRUS STRAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAIWAN;

EID: 0034063011     PISSN: 05781337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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