Kaposi Sarcoma in Mantled Guereza

Abstract

We identified a novel Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus–related rhadinovirus (Colobine gammaherpesvirus 1) in a mantled guereza (Colobus guereza kikuyensis). The animal had multiple oral tumors characterized by proliferation of latent nuclear antigen 1–positive spindle cells and was not co-infected with immunosuppressive simian viruses, suggesting that it had Kaposi sarcoma caused by this novel rhadinovirus.

Keywords

• Kaposi sarcoma
• Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus
• KSHV
• nonhuman primate
• rhadinovirus
• viruses