Immune evasion by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
β Scribed by Coscoy, Laurent
- Book ID
- 109955674
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 423 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1474-1741
- DOI
- 10.1038/nri2076
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Little is presently known about the specific routes of transmission of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). To investigate whether this agent might be transmitted vertically from mother to infant, we conducted a study on 89 KSHV seropositive mothers and thei
## Abstract Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and its causative agent, Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHVβ8), a gamma2 herpesvirus, have distinctive geographical distributions that are largely unexplained. We propose the βoncoweedβ hypothesis to explain these differences, namely that environment