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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-6-28
pubmed:abstractText
Resolution of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection in pediatric solid-organ transplant recipients often leads to an asymptomatic carrier state characterized by a persistently elevated circulating EBV load that is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude greater than the load typical of healthy latently infected individuals. Elevated EBV loads in immunosuppressed individuals are associated with an increased risk for development of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease. We have performed fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) studies with peripheral blood B cells from carriers of persistent EBV loads in order to directly quantitate the number of EBV genomes per infected cell. Patients were assigned to two groups on the basis of the level of the persistent load (low-load carriers, 8 to 200 genomes/10(5) peripheral blood lymphocytes; high-load carriers, >200 genomes/10(5) peripheral blood lymphocytes). FISH analysis revealed that the low-load carriers predominantly had circulating virus-infected cells harboring one or two genome copies/cell. High-load carriers also had cells harboring one or two genome copies/cell; in addition, however, they carried a distinct population of cells with high numbers of viral genome copies. The increased viral loads correlated with an increase in the frequency of cells containing high numbers of viral genomes. We conclude that low-load carriers possess EBV-infected cells that are in a state similar to normal latency, whereas high-load carriers possess two populations of virus-positive B cells, one of which carries an increased number of viral genomes per cell and is not typical of normal latency.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2533-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Carrier State, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Child, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Epstein-Barr Virus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Genome, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Herpesvirus 4, Human, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Lymphoproliferative Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Organ Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:12089275-Virus Latency
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of Epstein-Barr virus genomes in peripheral blood B cells from solid-organ transplant recipients by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article