Human herpesvirus type 8-associated episodic multisystem illness in an HIV-infecfed patient in the absence of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis [1]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1640-1641

  Lim, Lyn Li ^a   Druce, Julian ^b   Street, Alan C ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ADULT; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2942556788     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382698     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Fardet L, Blum L, Kerob D, et al. Human herpesvirus 8-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. Clin Infect Dis 2003; 37:285-90.
2. Boshoff C, Whitby D, Hatziannou T, et al. Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpervirus in HIV negative Kaposi's sarcoma. Lancet 1995; 345:1043-4.