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a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone"
(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance" (同)computer virus
viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane
any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin (同)herpes_virus
a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer

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1. ヒトヘルペスウイルス8感染のウイルス学、疫学、および伝播 virology epidemiology and transmission of human herpesvirus 8 infection
2. ヒトヘルペスウイルス8感染の疾患関連 disease associations of human herpesvirus 8 infection
3. 多中心性キャッスルマン病 multicentric castlemans disease
4. 古典的カポジ肉腫：疫学、危険因子、病理、および分子学的病因 classic kaposi sarcoma epidemiology risk factors pathology and molecular pathogenesis
5. ヒトヘルペスウイルス7感染 human herpesvirus 7 infection

Human herpesvirus 8 establishes a latent infection in prostates of Tobago men resulting in increased macrophage infiltration.

Henning JD1, Bunker CH2, Patrick AL3, Jenkins FJ4.
The Prostate.Prostate.2016 Jun;76(8):735-43. doi: 10.1002/pros.23163. Epub 2016 Feb 5.
BACKGROUND: The Caribbean island of Tobago, which is 97% African ancestry, has one of the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world. We have previously reported that human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection is significantly associated with prostate cancer in Tobago. In this study, we extend those r
PMID 26848067

HHV-8 DNA replication correlates with the clinical status in AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.

Broccolo F1, Tassan Din C2, Viganò MG3, Rutigliano T4, Esposito S5, Lusso P6, Tambussi G2, Malnati MS7.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology.J Clin Virol.2016 May;78:47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2016.02.019. Epub 2016 Feb 26.
BACKGROUND: The value of plasma levels of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) DNA as a marker of clinical status in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related Kaposi's sarcoma (AIDS-KS) remains to be elucidated.OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between the plasma HHV-8 DNA viral load and the clini
PMID 26985593

Kahn JA1, Rudy BJ2, Xu J3, Kapogiannis B4, Secord E5, Gillison M6.
Journal of medical virology.J Med Virol.2016 Apr 20. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24555. [Epub ahead of print]
Human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) may promote oral cancers, especially among immunosuppressed individuals. The aims of this study were to examine whether demographic characteristics, medical history, sexual behaviors, substance us
PMID 27096166