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SUBMITTER: Gong D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4178812 | biostudies-other | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of virology 20140723 19
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is associated with several human malignances. As saliva is likely the major vehicle for KSHV transmission, we studied in vitro KSHV infection of oral epithelial cells. Through infection of two types of oral epithelial cells, normal human oral keratinocytes (NHOKs) and papilloma-immortalized human oral keratinocyte (HOK16B) cells, we found that KSHV can undergo robust lytic replication in oral epithelial cells. By employing de novo ...[more]