Relations between malaria and Burkitt's lymphoma
Charmot, G.; Rodhain, F.; Roze, J.M.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique et de Ses Filiales 70(3): 274-281
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 208788 Document Number: 111468
Malaria, especially forest malaria, is the environmental factor which creates endemic conditions for the Esptein-Barr virus related Burkitt's lymphoma. The Plasmodium seems active through a mitogenic factor rather than through the so often invoked immunological depresssion.