epstein-barr virus in nasopharyngeal carcinoma in indian patients. | formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue blocks from 40 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma were investigated for the presence of epstein-barr virus (ebv). heminested polymerase chain reaction was employed to amplify u 2 region of ebv dna coding for ebna 2 gene. this is the first study of its kind carried out in india. ebv was detected in 28 out of 40 (70%) nasopharyngeal carcinomas. type a ebv was identified in 20 cases (71.4%), type b in 7 cases (25%) and coinfection in one case (3.5%). either ty ... | 1999 | 10921211 |