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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 characteristic for lytic infection are found predominantly in the peripheral blood cells of KS patients. In this study, we...
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