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1Department of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541199, People’s Republic of China; 2Graduate College, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541199, People’s Republic of China; 3Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha 410083, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital, Hebei University, Baoding 071000, People’s Republic of China; 6Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Science, Guilin Medical University, Guilin 541199, People’s Republic of China Background: Most Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive cells lose the EBV episomes upon