Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
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kaposi-s-sarcoma-associated-herpesvirus-226-2258500
title:
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
text:
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the ninth known human herpesvirus; its formal name according to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is Human gammaherpesvirus 8, or HHV-8 in short. Like other herpesviruses, its informal names are used interchangeably with its formal ICTV name. This virus causes Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer commonly occurring in AIDS patients, as well as primary effusion lymphoma, HHV-8-associated multicentric Castleman's disease and KSHV infl
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of virus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_sarcoma-associated_herpesvirus
date created:
2004-12-06T04:32:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T19:23:32Z
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13
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