EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS


Meaning of EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS in English

/ep"stuyn bahr"/

a type of herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis. Abbr.: EBV

[ after M. A. Epstein (b. 1921), British pathologist, and Y. M. Barr, British virologist, who isolated the virus in 1964 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .