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To the Editor: Last year we reported finding Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) in smooth-muscle–tumor cells in leiomyosarcoma tissues from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).¹ This was the first evidence of EBV infection of nonlymphoid cells of mesenchymal origin. Almost simultaneously, evidence of a new herpesvirus, known as Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus 8, was found in Kaposi's sarcoma tissues from patients with AIDS.² The mesenchymal origin of both leiomyosarcoma and Kaposi's sarcoma and the recent demonstration of coinfection of cells of body-cavity–based B-cell lymphomas by both EBV and this new herpesvirus³ suggested that KSHV may also coinfect . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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