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Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.

Lancet, 1, 252-3. 1964.

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.

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