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In search of a (new) viral etiological agent, we screened 64 lymph node samples from Hodgkin's disease (HD) and 43 samples (32 lymph node and 11 skin biopsies) from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) for human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7). Twenty-nine control samples were tested as well, including 17 with benign lymphadenopathy. None of the samples tested positive by Southern blot hybridization using HHV-7-specific probes. We conclude that there is no major HHV-7 load in human lymphoma and that HHV-7 is not likely to be directly involved in its etiology. This is in contrast to a small minority of human lymphoproliferative diseases in which HHV-6 can be found at high copy number, but in which an etiological role is still uncertain.
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Received: September 8, 1998 / Accepted: November 2, 1998
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Berneman, Z., Torelli, G., Luppi, M. et al. Absence of a directly causative role for human herpesvirus 7 in human lymphoma and a review of human herpesvirus 6 in human malignancy. Ann Hematol 77, 275–278 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002770050457
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002770050457