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Much of the material presented in Fig. 11.2 and Table 11.1 was adopted from information available at http://www.med.ic.ac.uk/ludwig/ebv.htm that is maintained by Dr. Paul Farrell. We apologize to our many colleagues whose work could not be fully cited due to space constraints. We gratefully acknowledge our research support from U.S. Public Health Service grants CA056639 and CA073544 (to J.T.S.), CA056645 and CA117827 (to C.E.S.), and the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.

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Sample, J.T., Marendy, E.M., Hughes, D.J., Sample, C.E. (2009). The Epstein–Barr Virus Genome. In: Damania, B., Pipas, J.M. (eds) DNA Tumor Viruses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68945-6_11

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