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Human Herpesvirus 8: Current Issues [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2003 Although human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the etiologic agent of Kaposi sarcoma (KS), there are no formal guidelines for the clinical management of HHV-8 infection. In patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is the best tool for the prevention of KS.
Philip E. Pellett +3 more
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Clinical exuberance of classic Kaposi's sarcoma and response to radiotherapy [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2015 : Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a multicentric vascular neoplasm, with cutaneous and extracutaneous involvement. Different clinical and epidemiological variants have been identified.
Jeniffer Muñoz Trujillo +5 more
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Human herpesvirus 8 infection [PDF]
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2003 Human herpesvirus 8, also known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, is etiologically associated with Kaposi sarcoma and other rare malignancies. Human herpesvirus 8 infection is common in certain areas of Africa and Italy, but occurs in only 0% to 15% of adult populations in North America and Europe. Reports of human herpesvirus 8 prevalence of 3%
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Viruses, 2016 Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes 12 viral microRNAs (miRNAs) that are expressed during latency. Research into KSHV miRNA function has suffered from a lack of genetic systems to study viral miRNA mutations in the context of the viral
Vaibhav Jain +10 more
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Professional antigen presenting cells in human herpesvirus 8 infection
Frontiers in Immunology, 2013 Professional antigen presenting cells (APC), i.e., dendritic cells, monocytes/macrophages, and B lymphocytes, are critically important in the recognition of an invading pathogen and presentation of antigens to the T cell-mediated arm of immunity.
Emilee R Knowlton +7 more
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HIV-associated lymphoma: A 5-year clinicopathologic study from India
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2019 Context: Relative risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in people living with HIV is 60–200 times that of normal population. This is the largest series from India on lymphomas arising in HIV-infected individuals including workup for Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)
Rajalakshmi Sampath +4 more
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Simian homologues of human herpesvirus 8 [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2001 γ–Herpesviruses can be found in most primates including Old World an New World monkeys. The γ– herpesvirinae are grouped into two classes: lymphocryptoviruses (γ 1 ) and rhadinoviruses (γ 2 ).
Ronald C. Desrosiers, Blossom Damania
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 To determine the presence of Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and other serologic markers, we tested serum specimens of 339 Amerindians, 181 rural non-Amerindians, and 1,133 urban blood donors (13 Amerindians) in the Brazilian Amazon.
Maria C. Nascimento +10 more
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Mycosis fungoides and Kaposi’s sarcoma association in an HIV-negative patient [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016 The association of mycosis fungoides and kaposi’s sarcoma in HIV-negative patients is a rare phenomenon. The presence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) – associated with all forms of Kaposi’s sarcoma – has also been recently identified in mycosis fungoides ...
Maria Carolina Prado Fleury Bariani +4 more
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Prevalence of human herpesvirus 8 infection in patients undergoing hemodialysis using nested-PCR
Journal of Acute Disease, 2019 Objective: To study the prevalence of HHV-8 infection in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Methods: In this study, blood samples of 89 patients undergoing hemodialysis were collected.
Somayeh Shokri +5 more
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