The investigators randomized 26 men with HHV-8 to receive 8 weeks of valganciclovir or placebo. Participants were selected on the basis of previous studies showing that these patients shed HHV-8 in ...

Oct. 12, 2005 (San Francisco) — A safe and effective way to prevent or reduce AIDS-related cancers may be to successfully suppress the etiologic agent responsible for their development. This is one of ...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the causal agent of Kaposi's sarcoma, is transmitted sexually among homosexual men, but little is known of its transmission among women. Although HHV-8 has been detected ...

Severe pulmonary hypertension constitutes a group of diseases characterized by complex, lumen-occluding vascular lesions that develop in genetically susceptible persons. The only viral infection ...

Siobhan Sutcliffe, Cathee Till, Frank J. Jenkins, Charlotte A. Gaydos, Phyllis J. Goodman, Ashraful M. Hoque, Ann W. Hsing, Ian M. Thompson, William G. Nelson, Angelo ...

Predictive value for engraftment and survival of total nucleated cell dose (TNC) as compared to CD34+ cell dose after autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) for hematologic ...

Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) is expressed in endothelial and spindle cells of nearly all Kaposi sarcomas, and the presence of this antigen in serum is strongly ...

Although human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the etiologic agent of Kaposi sarcoma (KS), there are no formal guidelines for the clinical management of HHV-8 infection. In patients infected with human ...

PRAGUE, June 1 -- More than half of a group of patients with psoriasis tested positive for human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), suggesting infection might play a role in the etiology of the disease, ...

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