The investigators randomized 26 men with HHV-8 to receive 8 weeks of valganciclovir or placebo. Participants were selected on the basis of previous studies showing that these patients shed HHV-8 in ...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the causal agent of Kaposi's sarcoma, is transmitted sexually among homosexual men, but little is known of its transmission among women. Although HHV-8 has been detected ...

Oct. 12, 2005 (San Francisco) — A safe and effective way to prevent or reduce AIDS-related cancers may be to successfully suppress the etiologic agent responsible for their development. This is one of ...

Severe pulmonary hypertension constitutes a group of diseases characterized by complex, lumen-occluding vascular lesions that develop in genetically susceptible persons. The only viral infection ...

Predictive value for engraftment and survival of total nucleated cell dose (TNC) as compared to CD34+ cell dose after autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) for hematologic ...

Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) is expressed in endothelial and spindle cells of nearly all Kaposi sarcomas, and the presence of this antigen in serum is strongly ...

We retrospectively reviewed 5 cases of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HL) associated with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) reactivation in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. All ...

PRAGUE, June 1 -- More than half of a group of patients with psoriasis tested positive for human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), suggesting infection might play a role in the etiology of the disease, ...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection is common in Africa. We examined the distribution of HHV-8 within families in rural Tanzania to determine routes of spread. HHV-8 infection was assessed by ...

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