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Genotypic distribution of human herpesvirus-8 strains circulating in HIV-positive patients with and without Kaposi's sarcoma in Hungary.
Archives of virology - 1 Jul 2005
Szalai E, Takács M, Otvös R, Szlávik J, Juhász A, Berencsi G
Abstract excerpt
Open reading frame (ORF) 26 of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) from peripheral blood samples of 15 Hungarian HIV-positive patients with or without Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) were amplified and sequenced. Four variants of HHV-8 were identified according to ORF 26 genotyping. Most of the samples were shown to be subtype A3, however, subtypes A, B3/C2/C2', and C3 (ORF 26 region) were also identified. The ORF 26 subtypes A...
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