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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-3-23
pubmed:abstractText
A recently described sequence from a probable 5th human exogenous retrovirus, HRV-5, is related to type A, B and D retroviruses. It was initially detected in a salivary gland biopsy from a patient with Sjögren's syndrome, but it is not consistently associated with this disease. We searched for the HRV-5 sequence in DNA extracted from whole blood of 300 blood donors, 81 patients with hematological malignancy and 21 patients with neurological disease using PCR. While samples from none of the blood donors and the neurological patients became positive, 3 of the 81 patients with hematological malignancy were HRV-5 DNA positive. All 3 had B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of low grade. The difference in frequency between NHL and controls is statistically significant. HRV-5 DNA was found in DNA from whole blood and in plastic-adherent cells but not in tumor cell DNA. Thus, monocytes/macrophages may be preferred targets for HRV-5. Our result, together with a previous finding of HRV-5 DNA in 2 NHL cases, is compatible with an association between HRV-5 and NHL, whether causal or not.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
85
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
762-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Human retrovirus 5 sequences in peripheral blood cells of patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Virology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't