in serums of patients with congestive cardiomyopathy ( ccm ) , patients with ischemic heart disease ( ihd ) and those of healthy subjects , presence of antibodies to capsid and early antigens of epstein-barr 's virus ( ebv ) and to various structural components of myocardium was determined in order to study seroepidemiologic relations between the infection and ccm as well as immunopathogenic reactions against myocardium in this disease .
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infection
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disease