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. 2018 Nov 1;208(5):573–583. doi: 10.1007/s00430-018-0570-1

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Fig. 1 — EBV is associated with a diverse range of human neoplasms. EBV mainly infects B lymphocytes, making them malignant transformation, and then forms a malignant lymphoma, such as BL. EBV may transform epithelial cells into epithelial malignancies, such as NPC, EBV-GC. Recent studies have found that EBV can also infect NK/T cells to form a natural killer/T cell lymphoma (NK/T cell lymphoma)