High prevalence of antibodies to human herpesvirus-8 in relatives of patients with classic Kaposi's sarcoma from Sardinia
✍ Scribed by F. Cottoni; A. Angeloni; L. Heston; S. Uccini; M.C. Sirianni; M.V. Masala; D. Cerimele; M. Rigsby; A. Faggioni; G. Miller
- Book ID
- 118605616
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0926-9959
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## Abstract We report the molecular characterization of 38 new Kaposi's sarcoma‐associated herpesvirus (KSHV) strains from Russian patients with either classic (25 cases), epidemic/AIDS‐associated (7 cases), or posttransplant/immunosuppressed patients (6 cases), or Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). While a co
## Background: Dna sequences of human herpesvirus-8 (hhv8) are found in lesions of kaposi's sarcoma (ks). ## Objectives: To verify the hypothesis of the sexual transmission of hhv8 infection. ## Methods: We used the immunoperoxidase assay to study the prevalence of serum antibodies to hhv8-rela