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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
(
KSHV
) is the eighth human
herpesvirus
; its formal name according to the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
(ICTV) is
HHV-8
. Like other herpesviruses, its informal name (KSHV) is used interchangeably with its ICTV name. This virus causes
Kaposi's sarcoma
, a cancer commonly occurring in
AIDS
patients, as well as
primary effusion lymphoma
and some types of multicentric
Castleman's disease
. It is one of seven currently known human cancer viruses, or
oncoviruses
.
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