Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus
Subtitle: New Perspectives (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)
Contributors: C. Boshoff (Editor); R.A. Weiss (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9783540343431
Subjects: Immunology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Infectious Diseases; AIDS; G protein-coupled receptor; Gamma-herpesviridae; HIV-1; Interferon regulatory factor; Latency associated nuclear antigen; Medical / Infectious Diseases; Multicentric Castleman disease; Primary effusion lymphoma; Replication and transcription activator; Rhesus monkey rhadinovirus; Diseases
First sentence: Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) (or HHV8) is a gamma-2 or rhadinovirus subfamily herpesvirus (Chang et al. 1994; Russo et al. 1996) that is believed to be the etiological agent of Kaposi sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and some forms of mu