Molecular epidemiology of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) in Cuban and German patients with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and asymptomatic sexual contacts

Virology

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 297-303

  Kouri, Vivian ^a,b   Marini, Alessandra ^b   Doroudi, Roya ^b   Nambiar, Sandeep ^b   Rodriguez, Maria E ^a   Capo, Virginia ^a   Resik, Sonia ^a   Blanco, Orestes ^a   Martínez, Ariel ^a   Hengge, Ulrich R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

HHV 8; KSHV subtypes; Sexual transmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN;

HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8;

EID: 20444407281     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.04.033     Document Type: Article

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