Epstein-Barr virus and the pathogenesis
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Georg W. Bornkamm
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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## Abstract Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) was first described as a clinical entity in children in Central Africa by Denis Burkitt in 1958. The particular epidemiological features of this tumor initiated the search for a virus as the causative agent and led to the discovery of Epstein‐Barr virus (EBV) by