HHV-8
"Primary Effusion Lymphoma Containing Human Herpesvirus 8 DNA in Two AIDS Patients with Kaposi's sarcoma."
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 30th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Haematologica, "Background and Objective: Primary effusion lymphomas (PELs) containing Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8/HHV-8) DNA sequences represent a distinct but heterogeneous group of rare non-Hodgkin's lymphomas of null-cell phenotype/B-cell origin. We aimed to describe the clinicopathologic features of two human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related PELs occurring in homosexual men with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Design and Methods: Thoracentesis was followed by morphologic plus immunophenotypic studies and molecular analysis of tumor cell DNA by means of combination of...
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