First detected by Chang et al. (1994) in Kaposi sarcomas associated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) (see IARC, 1996) by representational difference analysis, this virus was termed Kaposi-sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, KSHV. KSHV is also associated with primary effusion lymphoma and some cases of multicentric Castleman disease (see Section 2). In keeping with the systematic ...

First detected by Chang et al. (1994) in Kaposi sarcomas associated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) (see IARC, 1996) by representational difference analysis, this virus was termed Kaposi-sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, KSHV. KSHV is also associated with primary effusion lymphoma and some cases of multicentric Castleman disease (see Section 2). In keeping with the systematic ...

Four human herpesviruses were discovered in a eight-year period between 1986 and 1994. This exciting era of virus discovery was driven in part by the search for HIV and HIV-related diseases coupled with the development of new molecular tools such as PCR, automated Sanger sequencing, and subtractive hybridization. Three of these viruses, human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A) and human herpesvirus 6B (HH...

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