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An oncovirus or oncogenic virus is a virus that can cause cancer. This term originated from studies of acutely transforming retroviruses in the 1950–60s, when the term oncornaviruses was used to denot
A micrograph showing cells with abnormal p53 expression (brown) in a brain tumor
Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer that can form masses in the skin and is caused by the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), also called HHV-8.
Major capsid protein L1 pentamer, Human papillomavirus 11
Rabbit with Shope papilloma virus infection
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus is the ninth known human herpesvirus. It is also called Human herpesvirus 8, or HHV-8 in short. This virus causes Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer commonly occurring
Oncovirus
…are tumorigenic when they infect a cell and persist as circular episomes or plasmids, replicating separately from host cell DNA (Epstein–Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus). Other viruses are only carcinogenic when they integrate into the host cell genome as part of a biological accident, such as polyomaviruses and…
Kaposi's Sarcoma
Micrograph of Kaposi sarcoma. H&E stain.