Novel intertypic recombinants of epstein-barr virus in the chinese population.
Midgley RS., Blake NW., Yao QY., Croom-Carter D., Cheung ST., Leung SF., Chan AT., Johnson PJ., Huang D., Rickinson AB., Lee SP.
Among 34 Epstein-Barr virus isolates from nonimmunocompromised Chinese donors, we identified three intertypic recombinants with type 1 sequences at the EBNA2 locus and type 2 sequences at some or all of the EBNA3A, -3B, and -3C loci. These appear to have arisen from independent, evolutionarily recent recombination events; such events may be commoner in nonimmunocompromised populations than hitherto imagined.