The Relationship Between Environmental Factors and the Profile of Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies in the Lytic and Latent Infection Periods in Healthy Populations from Endemic and Non-Endemic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Areas in China

Our previous study found that smoking was associated with an elevated level of the antibody against VCA in the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic phase, which was an important predictive marker of the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). It remained unknown whether environmental factors were associat...

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Main Authors: Yong-Qiao He, Wen-Qiong Xue, Feng-Hua Xu, Ya-Fei Xu, Jiang-Bo Zhang, Huan-Lin Yu, Qi-Sheng Feng, Li-Zhen Chen, Su-Mei Cao, Qing Liu, Jianbing Mu, Yi-Xin Zeng, Wei-Hua Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-04-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396418300732