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What is Epstein-Barr virus?

April 26, 2017epstein-barr virus

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What is Epstein-Barr virus?

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Fairly recently in medical history, the Epstein-Barr virus was found to be the root cause of mononucleosis (known commonly as, “mono”). Epstein-Barr was found to be the cause of the disease after a correlation was made between the presence of the Epstein-Barr antigens and people who had been recently diagnosed with mononucleosis. Morphologically speaking, the Epstein-Barr virus (“EBV”) is not unlike the typical herpes virus. Like herpes, EBV’s nucleocapsid has icosahedral symmetry. Also like herpes, nucleoid core of the virus contains a double stranded linear DNA genome.