title: Direct detection of Epstein-Barr virus DNA from a single Reed-Sternberg cell of Hodgkin's disease by polymerase chain reaction.
abstract: Eleven cases of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were examined for the presence of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect EBV DNA in whole paraffin-embedded tissue specimens and in single cells picked out from the specimens with a micromanipulator. The EBV genome was detected in 5 of the 11 cases by conventional PCR. Single cell PCR demonstrated the EBV genome in Reed-Sternberg cells from all the EBV-positive cases, but not from any of the EBV-negative cases. Background lymphocytes and lysozyme-positive histiocytes from EBV-positive cases did not contain the EBV genome. These results indicate an etiological association of EBV with some cases of HD.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Pathology, Okayama University Medical School.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Teramoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akagi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshino
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jeon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001483:Base Sequence; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D016539:Reed-Sternberg Cells / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides