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Extractions: Epstein-Barr Virus and Infectious Mononucleosis DISEASE INFORMATION Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a member of the herpesvirus family and one of the most common human viruses. The virus occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as 95% of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected. Infants become susceptible to EBV as soon as maternal antibody protection (present at birth) disappears. Many children become infected with EBV, and these infections usually cause no symptoms or are indistinguishable from the other mild, brief illnesses of childhood. In the United States and in other developed countries, many persons are not infected with EBV in their childhood years. When infection with EBV occurs during adolescence or young adulthood, it causes infectious mononucleosis 35% to 50% of the time. Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis are fever, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands. Sometimes, a swollen spleen or liver involvement may develop. Heart problems or involvement of the central nervous system occurs only rarely, and infectious mononucleosis is almost never fatal. There are no known associations between active EBV infection and problems during pregnancy, such as miscarriages or birth defects. Although the symptoms of infectious mononucleosis
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Extractions: of Science Sponsored by Glandular fever, a common disease in teenagers, is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus. Australian research on the Epstein-Barr virus has led to a glandular fever vaccine, which is currently being trialled. You will get more from this topic if you have mastered the basics of the immune system Printer-friendly version of complete topic Like most good things in life, kissing can be hazardous to your health. Pucker up to someone and you risk infection with the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever and other nasty diseases. But we might not have to give up kissing just yet. A vaccine currently under development in Australian laboratories could help limit the dangers posed by this sometimes deadly virus. In 1961, a surgeon working in Uganda, Denis Burkitt, presented the results of his research to staff at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in Britain. He reported that the incidence of a certain tumour in African children had a geographic distribution corresponding to rainfall and temperature patterns. The disease, which affects about 8 in every 100,000 children in parts of Africa and Papua New Guinea, quickly became known as Burkitts lymphoma. The influence of climate on its incidence seemed to suggest that some biological factor was involved. Three researchers, M.A. Epstein, Y.M. Barr and B.G. Achong, immediately began looking for possible cancer-causing viruses in samples of the tumour sent from Uganda to Britain.
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Extractions: Epstein-Barr virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), herpesvirus that is the major cause of infectious mononucleosis and is associated with a number of cancers, particularly lymphomas in immunosuppressed persons, including persons with AIDS. Epstein-Barr is a ubiquitous virus, so common that it has been difficult to determine whether it is the cause of certain diseases or whether it is simply there as an artifact. In Third World nations, most children are infected with EBV; in most industrialized nations, about 50% of the people are infected. Research has found that all of the lymphomas associated with AIDS and most lymphomas in other immunocompromised persons are connected with latent EBV infection. EBV has been found in biopsy tissue of patients with Hodgkin's disease , breast cancer, and some smooth muscle tumors. EBV also was formerly suspected as the cause of
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Extractions: May 30, 1986 / 35(21);350-2 From November 1984 through August 1985, approximately 90 patients evaluated for persistent fatigue were diagnosed as having chronic Epstein-Barr virus (CEBV) disease by a two-physician community internal medicine practice near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The diagnoses were made by detecting antibody to the diffuse (EA-D) or the restricted (EA-R) components of early antigen of EBV, as suggested by two recent studies (1,2). Because of controversy about whether CEBV disease exists, two serologic studies were conducted to evaluate whether a syndrome of chronic fatigue could be statistically associated with a specific pattern of antibody titers against EBV. Fifteen "case" patients, felt to be the most likely to have CEBV, were identified by interviewing 134 of the 139 patients tested for EBV serology in the internal medicine practice between January 1, and August 20, 1985. By definition, these patients had persistent or relapsing unexplained fatigue for at least 2 months, which forced them to stop usual daily activities for at least 2 weeks. Other less universal symptoms included intermittent low-grade fever, sore throat, myalgias, arthralgias, and headaches. All 15 patients were white; 13 were female. The median age was 40 years (range 13-52 years). In the first serologic study, the 15 patients were compared with 118 of the 119 patients who had serologic testing for EBV (the serologic test results on one patient were not available). All 118 of these patients were white; 79 (66.9%) were female. The median age was 36 years (range 10-71 years). The case patients were more likely to have reciprocal EA-D titers of 160 or higher (45.5%, compared with 11.6%; p = 0.014) and EBV viral capsid antigen IgG (VCA-IgG) 160 or greater (80.0%, compared with 51.7%; p = 0.033) in the first serum tested. No evidence of acute EBV infection, manifested by positive IgM titers to VCA, was detected in either the cases or the others tested.
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Extractions: Epstein-Barr Virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a condition that has become widespread in the USA. The causes of epstein barr is not well understood. Some experts believe it is associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) based on the fact that many people with chronic fatigue syndrome have high level of EBV antibodies in their blood. Intestinal parasites are also common with people who have chronic fatigue syndrome. Epstein-Barr can reoccur at any time especially after illness or stress. Nutrient / Supplement Helpful notes Fatty Acids helps strengthen your body's immune system which is weaken by epstein-barr. Fatty acids are found in omega fatty acids from fish oil, flax seed oil, and borage seed oil. Acidophilus replaces needed bacteria that are helpful to your digestion and also helps fight infection. Sometimes found is a vitamin herbal mixture. Multi-vitamin contains vitamin E vitamin B vitamin C magnesium ... potassium , and zinc which all are helpful in both the treatment and prevention of epstein barr and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Extractions: Epstein-Barr Virus and Infectious Mononucleosis Original Source: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/ebv.htm DISEASE INFORMATION Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a member of the herpesvirus family and one of the most common human viruses. The virus occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as 95% of adults between 35 and 40 years of age have been infected. Infants become susceptible to EBV as soon as maternal antibody protection (present at birth) disappears. Many children become infected with EBV, and these infections usually cause no symptoms or are indistinguishable from the other mild, brief illnesses of childhood. In the United States and in other developed countries, many persons are not infected with EBV in their childhood years. When infection with EBV occurs during adolescence or young adulthood, it causes infectious mononucleosis 35% to 50% of the time. Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis are fever, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands. Sometimes, a swollen spleen or liver involvement may develop. Heart problems or involvement of the central nervous system occurs only rarely, and infectious mononucleosis is almost never fatal. There are no known associations between active EBV infection and problems during pregnancy, such as miscarriages or birth defects. Although the symptoms of infectious mononucleosis
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QIMR Website - Epstein-Barr Virus Unit The epsteinbarr virus (EBV) Unit seeks to combine basic research with clinicalapplication to provide new strategies to treat human viral diseases. http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/units/ebv/
Extractions: Unit Head: Professor Denis Moss Diseases caused by viruses are one of the most important challenges facing medical research because unlike bacterial infections, antibiotics generally have little capacity to prevent virus replication. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) Unit seeks to combine basic research with clinical application to provide new strategies to treat human viral diseases. The Unit has a number of interlocking themes which include: Successful vaccines rely on a full understanding of the immune mechanisms that protect from disease. The EBV Unit has been in the forefront of defining the components of the immune system that protect from EBV infection and how this protection fails in certain circumstances, resulting in cancer. All the evidence points to a major role for killer lymphocytes. These killer lymphocytes (referred to as cytotoxic T lymphocytes or CTL) recognise epitopes in association with proteins that cause transplantation rejection. This background has led us into the development of a procedure to treat heart and heart/lung graft recipients who are susceptible to EBV lymphomas which arise as a result of the use of immunosuppressive drugs.
QIMR Website - Epstein-Barr Virus Biology Laboratory epsteinbarr virus Biology Laboratory. Identification of type B-specific and cross-reactivecytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses to epstein-barr virus. J. Virol. http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/labs/denism/
Extractions: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes glandular fever and is associated with a number of cancers including lymphomas in transplant patients and a relatively common form of cancer in the back of the nose called nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The EBV Biology laboratory has a broad interest in all aspects of the biology of the virus and is closely linked with other laboratories within the Unit. Research Highlights: Definition of the components of the immune system that protect from EBV infection. In particular this laboratory has established the principle that "killer T cells" (CTL) are the main immune parameter responsible for controlling the long-term latent EBV infection that all immune individuals carry for life.
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Extractions: Although at least 80% of stomach cancer is associated with Helicobacter pylori infection, there is a subset of cancers that are HP-negative. Epstein-Barr virus is now implicated as the cause of many of these. The proportion of cancers caused by each depends upon the proportion of each infection in various populations. Epstein-Barr virus-associated gastric carcinoma and Epstein-Barr virus infection of the stomach. M Fukayama, Y Hayashi, Y Iwasaki, J Chong, T Ooba, T Takizawa, M Koike, S Mizutani, M Miyaki, K Hirai. Lab Invest 1994 Jul;71(1):73-81. Yuen / Am J Surg Pathol 1994 abstract [Epstein-Barr associated gastric carcinoma: the genetic alteration and the expression of CD44 variant]. JM Chong, M Fukuyama. Nippon Rinsho 1997 Feb;55(2):381-385. "EBV-encoded small RNA was found in nearly all of the carcinoma cells even at the intramucosal stage."