Table 1.
Interpretation of EBV serological pattens in immunocompetent individuals a.
Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of the studied subjects (Total N = 673).
Table 3.
EBV seroprevalence and viremia rates in the studied population (N = 673).
Table 4.
EBV serology and viremia rates among major nationalities (N = 673).
Fig 1.
The correlation of EBV seroprevalence and viremia rates with the ages of donors.
Both seroprevalence and viremia rates increased significantly with age.
Table 5.
Correlation between EBV serology and RT-PCR.
Fig 2.
The distribution of EBV genotypes among Qatari and non- Qatari residents.
Fig 3.
Alignment of the LMP-1 C-terminal amino acid sequences by Clustal W method using CLC 7.7.1 sequence viewer software.
Numbers on the top represent the amino acid position corresponding to the prototype (B95.8). Dots indicate identical amino acid to the prototype sequence, while dashes indicate deletions.
Fig 4.
Phylogenetic tree of LMP-1 C-terminus amino acid sequences using neighbor-joining method and Kimura two-parameter algorithm.
Table 6.
Distribution of EBV LMP-1 sub-genotypes by donors’ nationalities.