https://t.co/bp17JKpVgu "Released virions may in turn infect epithelial cells in the oropharynx, facilitating further virus production in differentiating epithelium and release into the oropharynx for horizontal transmission to new hosts."
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https://t.co/bp17JKpVgu "Normal plasmacytoid differentiation of virus-carrying B cells in lymphoid tissues may lead to reactivation of virus into lytic replication, which involves expression of around 80 viral genes and the production of new infectious vi
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https://t.co/bp17JKpVgu "but thereafter the infected B cells revert to a latent state in the circulating memory B cell pool to evade virus-specific immune T cell responses."
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https://t.co/bp17JKpVgu "In vivo, EBV-infected B cells may undergo limited expansion induced by the transformation-associated viral genes,"