1964 EPSTEIN, Michael Anthony (1921 – ); BARR, Yvonne (1932 – 2016)
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
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 cance…
GMN 2660.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3410
1964 EPSTEIN, Michael Anthony (1921 – ); BARR, Yvonne (1932 – 2016); ACHONG, Bert Geoffrey (1928 – 1996)
Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.
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 …
GMN 2660.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3414
1967 HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006); HENLE, Werner (1910 – 1987); DIEHL, Volker S. (1938 – ); HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – ); KOHN, G.
Herpes-type virus and chromosome marker in normal leukocytes after growth with irradiated Burkitt cells.
Hausen and colleagues showed for the first time that a cancer virus (Epstein-Barr virus) can transform healthy cells (lymphocytes) into cancer cells. This showed that viruses can cause cancer cell formation. (Order of…
GMN 12662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14906
1968 HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006); HENLE, Werner (1910 – 1987); DIEHL, Volker S. (1938 – )
Relation of Burkitt’s tumor-associated herpes-type virus to infectious mononucleosis.
The Henles and Diehl showed that Epstein-Barr virus is the aetiological agent in infectious mononucleosis.
GMN 5487.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6427
1973 SHOPE, Thomas
Malignant lymphoma in cottontop marmosets after inoculation with Epstein–Barr virus.
Epstein-Barr virus as a cause of Burkitt’s lymphoma. With D. DeChairo and G. Miller.
GMN 2660.25 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3436
2014 CRAWFORD, Dorothy H.; JOHANNESSEN, Ingófur; RICKINSON, Alan Bernard
Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.
GMN 11346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13544
