Kaposi's sarcoma in the Gambia, West Africa is less frequent in human immunodeficiency virus type 2 than in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection despite a high prevalence of human herpesvirus 8. - Concepedia

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Kaposi's sarcoma in the Gambia, West Africa is less frequent in human immunodeficiency virus type 2 than in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection despite a high prevalence of human herpesvirus 8.

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1999

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Koya Ariyoshi, MF Schim van der Loeff, Paul Cook, Denise Whitby, Tumani Corrah, Shabbar Jaffar, F Cham, S Sabally, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Robin A. Weiss,

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HHV-8 infection is widespread in the Gambia. In addition to immunosuppression and HHV-8 infection, other cofactors specifically related to HIV-1 rather than HIV-2 appear to be involved in the development of KS.