Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have abnormally elevated Epstein–Barr virus load in blood
Various genetic and environmental factors appear to be involved in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is among the environmental factors that are suspected of predisposing to SLE, based on the characteristics of EBV itself and on sequence homologies between autoantigens and...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2004
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC464871/ |