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Immunological control of EBV infection is known to be an important determinant of EBV infection outcomes. However, species-specific viral tropism and limited infection models have impeded mechanistic insights into early host\u2013immune control of EBV infection. Here, we use\n                    <jats:italic>ex vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), rather than routinely used B cell enriched culture systems, to study immune and viral dynamics during primary EBV infection. We combined bulk RNA sequencing, EBV transcript enrichment, and flow cytometry to characterize cellular responses across Days 1, 7\u20138, and 14 post-infection. Early infection triggered a monocyte-specific antiviral response marked by changes in the expression of genes associated with lipid metabolism (LIPA, lysosomal acid lipase) and chemotaxis (CCR1 and CCR2). Inhibitors of LIPA increased EBV titers during primary infection, indicating that LIPA is part of an early monocyte-driven antiviral response. At later timepoints post-infection, donor-dependent variability in lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) outgrowth was associated with divergent immune states. Donors that failed to generate LCLs demonstrated increased frequencies of CD8\n                    <jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup>\n                    T cells and reduced numbers of regulatory T cells (CD4\u2009\u207a\u2009CD25\u2009\u207a\u2009FOXP3\u207a). EBV transcriptomics revealed that LCL-failed donors exhibited elevated early lytic gene expression but did not establish a type III latency program. Our findings suggest that individual variations in immune cell composition and gene expression may account for differences in the immune response to EBV. These findings define temporal immune and viral signatures that predict transformation outcome and highlight intact PBMCs as a tractable model to study EBV pathogenesis in a genetically diverse, human-specific context.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.ppat.1013746","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,20]],"date-time":"2026-03-20T17:41:14Z","timestamp":1774028474000},"page":"e1013746","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.ppat.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["EBV infection outcomes determined by monocyte and TREG-driven immune dynamics in an ex vivo pbmc model"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Leena","family":"Yoon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lauren N.","family":"MacMullen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leonardo 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