Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV)
"Absence of Detectable Human Herpesvirus 8 in the Semen of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Men Without Kaposi's sarcoma."
Published in Cancer Weekly, November 10th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Infectious Diseases, "The prevalence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)/Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus was investigated in the semen of 99 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected men (median CD4 cell count, 357/mm3) by use of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay capable of detecting <10 copies of HHV-8 DNA. Of the subjects, 95 (96%) self-identified as men who have sex with men (MSM), and 3 had a history of clinical KS. Seminal cell specimens were negative for HHV-8 in 98 subjects. None of the 26 without KS (27.1% of 96 tested) who were seropositive for HHV-8 by IFA for...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-11-10)
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