Vironome of Kaposi sarcoma associated herpesvirus-inflammatory cytokine syndrome in an AIDS patient reveals co-infection of human herpesvirus 8 and human herpesvirus 6A.
KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS) is a newly described condition characterized by systemic illness as a result of systemic, lytic KSHV infection. We used Illumina sequencing to establish the DNA vironome of blood from such a patient. It identified concurrent high-level viremia of human herpesvirus (HHV) 8 and 6a. The HHV8 plasma viral load was 5,300,000 copies/ml, which is the highest reported to date; this despite less than five skin lesions and no HHV8 associated lymphoma. This is the first report of systemic HHV6a/KSHV co-infection in a patient. It is the first whole genome KSHV sequence to be determined directly from patient plasma rather than cultured or biopsied tumor material. This case supports KICS as a new clinical entity associated with KSHV.
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- Sarcoma, Kaposi
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- Humans
- Herpesvirus 8, Human
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
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Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
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Related Subject Headings
- Virology
- Viremia
- Viral Load
- Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sarcoma, Kaposi
- Phylogeny
- Male
- Humans
- Herpesvirus 8, Human