Cutaneous disseminated endemic Kaposi's sarcoma in a Polynesian man infected with a new divergent human herpesvirus 8 subtype D

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-226

  Duprez, Renan ^a   Cassar, Olivier ^a,b   Hbid, Oumkaltoum ^a   Rougier, Yannick ^b   Morisse, Laurent ^c   Bassot, Sylviane ^a   Huerre, Michel ^a   Gessain, Antoine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle Caledonie Noumea   (New Caledonia)

^c Hôpital de Sia   (France)

Author keywords

D subtype; HHV 8; Kaposi's sarcoma; Polynesia; Wallis Island

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; VIRUS STRAIN;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33750018690     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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