Nearly identical strains of human herpesvirus 8 in couples discordant for Kaposi's sarcoma

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 765-768

  Kouri, Vivian ^a   Marini, Alessandra ^b   Nambiar, Sandeep ^b   Rodriguez, Maria E ^a   Capo, Virginia ^a   Resik, Sonia ^a   Mantecon, Beatriz ^a   Martinez, Ariel ^a   Köhler Hansner, Karin J ^c   Hengge, Ulrich R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Joachim Kuhlmann AIDS Foundation   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MONOGAMY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34147120571     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328031f450     Document Type: Article

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