Reactivation of Latent Epstein-Barr Virus by Methotrexate: A Potential Contributor to Methotrexate-Associated Lymphomas - Concepedia

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Reactivation of Latent Epstein-Barr Virus by Methotrexate: A Potential Contributor to Methotrexate-Associated Lymphomas

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2004

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Wen-hai Feng, Jeffrey I. Cohen, Susan M. Fischer, L. Li, M. Sneller, Raphaela Goldbach‐Mansky, N. Raab-Traub, Henri‐Jacques Delecluse, S. C. Kenney

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Abstract

MTX may promote EBV-positive lymphomas in rheumatoid arthritis and polymyositis patients by its immunosuppressive properties as well as by reactivating latent EBV.

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