Open AccessA three year Seroepidemiological and molecular study of Epstein –Barr virus infection among different age groups with hematological malignancies in a Tertiary care centre of North India ( 2017 -2019)
Author(s) -
Sangram Singh Patel,
Sanatsujat Singh,
Chinmoy Sahu,
Ujjala Ghoshal,
Harshit Verma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1594_20
Subject(s) - medicine , seroprevalence , serology , lymphoma , immunology , antibody , epstein–barr virus , viral load , virus , population , virology , environmental health
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the family Gamma Herpes viridae and is usually implicated in malignancies like non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and Burkitt's lymphoma. The present study was designed with the aim to estimate the seroprevalence of EBV in people with hematological malignancies and further follow up was planned by viral load quantitation by Real time PCR in positive cases.