Published on Oct 29, 2020
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A 37-year-old man who is HIV positive has noticed multiple 0.5- to 1.2-cm, plaque-like, reddish-purple skin lesions on his face, trunk, and extremities. Some of the larger lesions appear to be nodular. These lesions have appeared over the past 6 months and have slowly enlarged. Molecular analysis of the spindle cells found in these skin lesions is likely to reveal the genome of which of the following viruses?

  • Cytomegalovirus
  • Epstein-Barr virus
  • Adenovirus
  • Human herpesvirus-8


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