Article
Persistent infection of Epstein-Barr virus-positive B lymphocytes by human herpesvirus 8.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 1998
Kliche S, Kremmer E, Hammerschmidt W, Koszinowski U, Haas J
Abstract excerpt
In patients with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) can invariably be detected in KS tumor tissue and, at a lower frequency, in prostate tissue and peripheral blood B lymphocytes. Whereas the majority of KS spindle cells are latently infected by HHV-8, linear HHV-8 genomes charact...
Topics
- B-Lymphocytes
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Herpesvirus 8, Human
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Serial Passage
- Viral Proteins
- Virus Latency