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Evidence for altered host genetic factors in KSHV infection and KSHV-related disease development.
Reviews in medical virology - 1 Mar 2021
Blumenthal Melissa J, Cornejo Castro Elena Maria, Whitby Denise, Katz Arieh A, Schäfer Georgia
Abstract excerpt
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the etiological agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the most common AIDS-related malignancy. It also causes other rare, but certainly underreported, KSHV-associated pathologies, namely primary effusion lymphoma, multicentric Castleman disease and KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome. Epidemiology and pathogenicity studies point to the potential for host genetic...
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