Detection of human herpesvirus 8 in the skin of patients with pityriasis rosea

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 604-606

  Prantsidis, Anestis ^a   Rigopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Papatheodorou, Georgios ^c   Menounos, Panayiotis ^d   Gregoriou, Stamatis ^b   Alexiou Mousatou, Ifigeneia ^b   Katsambas, Andreas ^b  

^a Military Hospital   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exanthema; Human herpesvirus 8; Pathogenesis; Pityriasis rosea

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; PITYRIASIS ROSEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; VIRUS GENOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITYRIASIS ROSEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71949131513     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0703     Document Type: Article

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