Takako Suzuki, Yoshitaka Sato, Yusuke Okuno, Yuka Torii, Yuto Fukuda, Kazunori Haruta, Makoto Yamaguchi, Yoshiki Kawamura, Asahito Hama, Atsushi Narita, Hideki Muramatsu, Tetsushi Yoshikawa, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Kimura, Yoshinori Ito, Jun-Ichi Kawada
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection can lead to infectious mononucleosis (EBV-IM) and, more rarely, EBV-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH), which is characterized by a life-threatening hyperinflammatory cytokine storm with immune dysregulation. Interferon-gamma (IFNγ) has been identified as a critical mediator for primary HLH; however, the detailed role of IFNγ and other cytokines in EBV-HLH is not fully understood. In this study, we used single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize the immune landscape of EBV-HLH and compared it with EBV-IM...
April 20, 2024: Journal of Clinical Immunology