EB病毒是侵犯人体的五种疱疹病毒之一。在美国和欧洲,EB病毒感染可致单核细胞增多症。在中非,它可导致伯基特氏淋巴瘤。然而在中国和东南亚,EB病毒与鼻咽癌的发病有关。在单核细胞增多症及伯基特氏淋巴瘤病例中,EB病毒感染血中B淋巴细胞。但在鼻咽癌,病毒感染的不是淋巴细胞而是鼻咽部的鳞状上皮细胞。伯明翰大学肿瘤科Law-rence Young等的最新研究证明了EB病毒是如何进入鳞状 The EB virus is one of the five herpes viruses that invade the human body. In the United States and Europe, EBV infection can cause mononucleosis. In Central Africa, it can cause Burkitt’s lymphoma. However, in China and Southeast Asia, Epstein-Barr virus is associated with the incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In cases of mononucleosis and Burkitt’s lymphoma, EB virus infects blood B lymphocytes. However, in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the virus is not a lymphocyte but a squamous epithelial cell of the nasopharyngeal. Recent research by Law-rence Young et al. in the Department of Oncology at the University of Birmingham demonstrates how the EB virus enters squamous