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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-5-24
pubmed:abstractText
A proportion of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) cases are causally associated with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) but the aetiology of the remaining cases remains obscure. Over the last 3 decades several studies have found an association between HL and measles virus (MV) including a recent cohort study describing the detection of MV antigens in Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells, the tumour cells in HL. In the present study we looked at the relationship between history of MV infection and risk of developing HL in a population-based, case/control study of HL. In addition we used immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR to look for direct evidence of MV in HL biopsies. There was no significant difference in the proportion of cases reporting previous measles compared to controls in the entire data set or when young adults were considered separately. Using a robust immunohistochemical assay for MV infection, we failed to find evidence of MV in biopsies from 97 cases of HL and RT-PCR studies similarly gave negative results. This study therefore provides no evidence that MV is directly involved in the development of HL. However, when age at first reported MV infection was investigated, significant differences emerged with children infected before school-age having higher risk, especially of EBV-ve HL, when compared with children infected at older ages; the interpretation of these latter results is unclear.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
(c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
121
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
442-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Hodgkin Disease, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Lymph Nodes, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Measles, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Measles virus, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Odds Ratio, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-RNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Vero Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17390376-Viral Proteins
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Measles virus and classical Hodgkin lymphoma: no evidence for a direct association.
pubmed:affiliation
LRF Virus Centre, Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't