Human herpesvirus 8 cellular immune responses in homosexual men

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1682-1685

  Strickler, Howard D ^a,b   Goedert, James J ^b   Bethke, F R ^c   Trubey, C M ^c   O'Brien, Thomas R ^b   Palefsky, Joel ^e   Whitman Jr , James E ^d   Ablashi, Dharam ^d   Zeichner, Steven ^b   Shearer, Gene M ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d Advanced Biotechnologies Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BLOOD DONORS; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032730466     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315056     Document Type: Article

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