Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV)
"Herpesvirus-Like DNA Sequences and Kaposi's sarcoma: Relationship with Epidemiology, Clinical Spectrum, and Histologic Features."
Published in AIDS Weekly, June 17th, 1996
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Cancer, "Background: The evidence of an infectious agent other than human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acting as a possible etiologic cause of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) has received considerable attention in the last years. Recently, DNA sequences from a new herpevirus (HHV-8) have been observed in several cases of KS. The discovery suggests that this virus may play a role in the pathogenesis of KS. To evaluate these results, we determined the frequency of HHV-8 DNA sequences in 78 specimens of KS according to different epidemiologic origins (sporadic KS: 6; immunosuppressive drug-associated: 11; and AIDS-associated: ...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (1996-06-17)
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