Epstein-Barr virus in an American patient with Burkitt's lymphoma: detection of viral genome in tumor tissue and establishment of a tumor-derived cell line (NAB)
Gravell, M.; Levine, P.H.; McIntyre, R.F.; Land, V.J.; Pagano, J.S.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 56(4): 701-704
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0027-8874 PMID: 176407 Document Number: 101804
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA (17.7 genome equivalents/cell) was found in tumor tissue from an American patient with Burkitt's lymphoma who had never traveled outside the United States. A lymphoid cell line (NAB) containing the EBV genome was established from tumor tissue from this patient; characteristics of this cell line were described. Previous Burkitt's tumors found in Americans and examined by molecular hybridization were negative for EBV DNA. Our results suggested that EBV is associated with at least some American Burkitt's tumors.