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Is Human Herpesvirus-8 Transmitted by Transfusion?
Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 2010Studies of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) transmission through transfusion have produced contradictory results. In North America-a region with a low prevalence of HHV-8 infection-3 studies that tested specimens from linked positive-donor/negative-recipient pairs collected before the introduction of white blood cell (WBC) reduction and the extension of red
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KAPOSI'S SARCOMA AND HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-8
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 1998KS is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among AIDS patients and a treatment problem in the sporadic cases that are not associated with HIV. All four forms of the disease are linked to a newly described herpesvirus, HHV-8 or KSHV, via strong epidemiologic associations and biologic plausibility as a causal agent.
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Human herpesvirus 8 and Kaposi's sarcoma
Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 1997In the last 2 years, the discovery that the suspected causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a new gamma-herpesvirus, called human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV8) or Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), has been followed by studies showing it to be a sine qua non of all clinical forms of KS and a specific marker for KS in the differential ...
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Lytic growth of Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) in culture
Nature Network Boston, 1996R. Renne +6 more
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Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) or Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)
2013Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is a virus that is associated with the original AIDS-defining tumor, Kaposi sarcoma (KS). This virus is necessary for the development of KS. Expression of the viral protein, LANA, represents the definitive diagnostic marker for KS.
Blossom Damania, Dirk P. Dittmer
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The Emergence of Kaposi's Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus (Human Herpesvirus 8)
New England Journal of Medicine, 2000The concept of emerging “new” pathogens is somewhat misnamed, since these pathogens are usually old infections that have newly adapted to social and technological changes. Such is the case for Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus, also referred to as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), which was first described in 1994 and is the subject of two articles ...
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Human Herpesvirus 8 Infection in Haemophiliacs [PDF]
Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2000 Anna Maria Eis-Hübinger +4 more
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