Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus in Kaposi's sarcoma occurring in immunosuppressed renal transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 429-431

  Kedda, Mary Anne ^a   Margolius, Laurence ^a   Kew, Michael C ^a,c   Swanepoel, Charles ^b   Pearson, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Kaposi's sarcoma; Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus; Renal transplant recipients; Scar tissue

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN;

EID: 0029854820     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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