title: Prevalence of EBV genotypes in Polish, Taiwanese and Arabic healthy students and association between genotypes and 30-bp deletion in the LMP-1 gene phylogenetic analysis.
abstract: The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of EBV genotype and del-LMP-1 in saliva from Polish, Taiwanese and Arabic healthy students. The study group consisted of 56 healthy students; 24 of them Polish, 25 Taiwanese, and 7 Arabic. Typing was carried out using PCR with EBNA-2 primers. A detection of LMP-1 variants was also performed using PCR. EBV DNA was detected in 22 investigated samples (39.3%). Type 1 of the virus was dominant in both Polish and Taiwanese group. Among 62.5% Taiwanese with EBV 1 and 55.6% Polish detected EBV with 30-bp deletion in LMP-1 gene.
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Polz
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Podsiadło
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stec
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polz-Dacewicz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002353:Carrier State / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral / Q000502:physiology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D011044:Poland; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D013624:Taiwan; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: C037662:EBV-associated membrane antigen, Epstein-Barr virus; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins