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Cellular Localization of Human Herpesvirus 8 in Nonneoplastic Lymphadenopathies and Chronic Interstitial Pneumonitis by in Situ Polymerase Chain Reaction Studies

 

作者: Raffaella,   Trovato Mario,   Luppi Patrizia,   Barozzi Luigi,   Prato Antonio,   Maiorana Salvatore,   Lico Roberto,   Marasca Pietro,   Torricelli Giuseppe,   Torelli Luca,  

 

期刊: Journal of Human Virology  (OVID Available online 1999)
卷期: Volume 2, issue 1  

页码: 38-44

 

ISSN:1090-9508

 

年代: 1999

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: HHV-8;KSHV;in situ PCR;benign lymphadenopathy;interstitial pneumonitis.

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

Objectives:To study the cellular localization of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in rare cases of HHV-8 infection from Italy that are associated neither with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection nor Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).Methods:The presence and distribution of HHV-8-infected cells was investigated by direct in situ polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the lymph node tissues from 2 patients with reactive lymphadenopathies with florid follicular hyperplasia and increased vascularity and in the lung tissue from 1 patient with chronic interstitial pneumonitis.Results:HHV-8 was localized in lymphoid and monocyte-macrophage cells scattered in the interfollicular regions of both lymph nodes but not in endothelial cells. In the lung tissue, HHV-8 was found in the inflammatory cells infiltrating the interalveolar interstitium, in endothelial cells of the pulmonary vasculature, and in rare pneumocytes.Conclusions:HHV-8 can infect nonneoplastic lymph nodes of immunocompetent subjects, and the distribution of infected cells outside of the germinal centers resembles that of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-infected cells in the lymph nodes in the course of infectious mononucleosis. Endothelial cells and pneumocytes may be a target of HHV-8 infection out of the KS setting, at least in the presence of a chronic inflammatory process.Journal of Human Virology 1999;2:38-44 © Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

 

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