Treating Cancer as an Infectious Disease—Viral Antigens as Novel Targets for Treatment and Potential Prevention of Tumors of Viral Etiology

Xing Guo Wang; Ekaterina Revskaya; Ruth A. Bryan; Howard D. Strickler; Robert D. Burk; Arturo Casadevall; Ekaterina Dadachova

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001114

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Treating Cancer as an Infectious Disease—Viral Antigens as Novel Targets for Treatment and Potential Prevention of Tumors of Viral Etiology

Xing Guo Wang,

Current address: Department of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Ekaterina Revskaya,

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Ruth A. Bryan,

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Howard D. Strickler,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Robert D. Burk,

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Arturo Casadevall ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Ekaterina Dadachova

Contributed equally to this work with: Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: edadacho@aecom.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Treating Cancer as an Infectious Disease—Viral Antigens as Novel Targets for Treatment and Potential Prevention of Tumors of Viral Etiology

Xing Guo Wang,
Ekaterina Revskaya,
Ruth A. Bryan,
Howard D. Strickler,
Robert D. Burk,
Arturo Casadevall,
Ekaterina Dadachova

Published: October 31, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001114

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