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3878848

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-3-20
pubmed:abstractText
Three children, all girls, showed long-lasting clinical and serologic evidence of chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Extremely high serum titers of IgG- and IgA-type VCA antibodies and EA antibodies were present, whereas EBNA antibody titers were in the range of those found in seropositive individuals. All three patients repeatedly showed the presence of nonspecific pokeweed mitogen (PWM)-activatable suppressor cells in the peripheral blood. The analysis of EBV-specific cytotoxic T cells showed that one patient exhibited normal cytotoxicity, whereas a second patient demonstrated no EBV-specific cytotoxicity together with unusually high levels of virus-infected B cells in the blood and lymph node. The third patient repeatedly showed refractoriness of the circulating B cells to EBV infection, probably on the basis of some developmental defect. It was concluded that each patient has his or her own peculiar defect in the virus-host balance, indicating that heterogeneity may underlie the syndrome of chronic active EBV infection in humans.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0271-9142
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
377-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Heterogeneity of immune defects in three children with a chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article