Untangling the issue with the hygiene hypothesis, Ascherio noticed the connection between infectious mononucleosis, primarily caused by EBV, and the risk of developing MS. Over time, overwhelming ...

Virologist Hans Wolf of the University of Regensburg in Germany has been working on the etiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in areas of China since 1979. Researchers from the U.S. National ...

Scientists in Sweden have taken an important step forward in understanding how a very common virus, called Epstein-Barr virus ...

The Breakthrough Prizes have been awarded annually since 2013 to recognize accomplishments in fundamental physics, ...

Once you're infected with EBV, you carry it for life—although for most people this causes no problems. By adulthood, about 95 ...

While its exact causes remain elusive, mounting evidence suggests that viral infections, particularly Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), may worsen disease severity. Elevated EBV DNA and RNA levels have ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2007;3(2):82-94. EBV establishes latency in B lymphocytes, which adopt restricted patterns of EBV gene expression. EBV latency has been classified into three types ...

During the study period, 15 patients referred for persistent unexplained vomiting were evaluated for suspected post-infectious gastroparesis. Three patients with normal gastric emptying studies ...

Now, research published today (January 13) in Science bolsters the case that one of the chief suspects—Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common cause of mononucleosis—can also trigger MS. The research team ...

It was established by Ascherio and his collaborators, as well as in follow-up research by other teams, that this disease is linked to infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a virus from the ...