Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of cancer. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus discovered. This was the authors' first publication of the discovery. A few issues of Nature later they followed this paper with a second paper, No. 2660.18.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus to be discovered.