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Nature Medicine  2, 277 - 278 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0396-277

Human herpesvirus 8 in lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma: Now the virus can be propagated

Robin A. Weiss

Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London SW3 6BJ, UK

Culturing HHV8 provides opportunities for studying the molecular biology of this virus (pages 332−336).

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