Kaposi's sarcoma: Presence of herpes-type virus particles in a tumor specimen
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Gammaherpesvirus entry and fusion: A tale how two human pathogenic viruses enter their host cells
2019, Advances in Virus ResearchCitation Excerpt :The first report of AIDS described that approximately 37% of the patients had KS (Centers For Disease Control, 1982b), HIV was only identified shortly afterward (Barre-Sinoussi et al., 1983; Gallo et al., 1984). In 1984, herpes-like structures were found in KS lesions using electron microscopy (Walter et al., 1984), but at that time several other viruses were discussed to be causative. It was another decade and more than a century after the first report of KS that Chang and Moore identified that a herpesvirus was present in tumor cells using representational difference analysis using DNA from a KS lesion from an AIDS patient (Chang et al., 1994).
The conundrum of causality in tumor virology: The cases of KSHV and MCV
2014, Seminars in Cancer BiologyCitation Excerpt :In the 1970s, the herpesvirus cytomegalovirus (CMV) was first proposed as the likely cause for KS, based mainly on antibody reactivity studies [36]. Careful electron microscopy soon revealed scattered herpes-like capsids in an African KS tumor [37]. KS had first been described by Moriz Kaposi in 1872 as an aggressive tumor in five patients that quickly led to death [38].
Human herpesvirus 8 infections in patients with immunodeficiencies
2008, Human PathologyCitation Excerpt :They called the virus KS herpesvirus, now recognized as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8). Retrospectively, one can extrapolate that the results published by Giraldo et al [5] in 1972 and by Walter et al [6] in Human Pathology in 1984, describing the presence of herpes-type virus particles in KS, were the first identification of HHV-8. Different tools were developed that allowed molecular and seroepidemiologic studies.
Kaposi's sarcoma and KSHV
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