“…In addition to EBV, various other viruses have been found to contribute to tumorigenic changes in the stomach. These viruses include John Cunningham virus (JCV) ( Murai et al, 2007 ), human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) ( Jin et al, 2014 ; Fattahi et al, 2018 ; Kosari-Monfared et al, 2019 ), hepatitis B (HBV) or C (HCV) viruses ( Song et al, 2019 ; Cui et al, 2020 ; Huang et al, 2020 ), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or human T-cell lymphophilic virus (HTLV) (Matsumoto et al, 2018; Kang et al, 2019 ; Schierhout et al, 2020 ), and papillomavirus (HPV) ( Zeng et al, 2016 ; Bozdayi et al, 2019 ).…”