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Relation of Burkitt’s tumor-associated herpes-type virus to infectious mononucleosis.

HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006) Wikipedia
HENLE, Werner (1910 – 1987) Wikipedia
DIEHL, Volker S. (1938 – )

Proc. nat. Acad. Sci. (Wash.), 59, 94-101. 1968.

The Henles and Diehl showed that Epstein-Barr virus is the aetiological agent in infectious mononucleosis. 

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