Komaroff Anthony L, Ablashi Dharam, Jacobson Steven
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Herpes. 2008 Nov;15(2):36-8.
This article reports on selected presentations at the 6th International Conference on Human Herpesvirus (HHV)-6 and -7, organized by the HHV-6 Foundation. The 98 presentations--which explored in some detail the biology of HHV-6, chromosomally integrated HHV-6, diagnostic testing and manifestations of HHV-6 infection in disease. Associations between HHV-6 and -7 and a wide variety of diseases were reported, and are made plausible by the remarkably broad cellular tropism of the viruses in vitro. To determine whether these associations are causal, it is imperative to improve diagnostic technologies and to expand studies of possible disease associations. It also is important to expand on recent encouraging work identifying effective in vitro treatments for both HHV-6 and -7.
本文报道了由人疱疹病毒6型（HHV-6）基金会组织的第六届人疱疹病毒（HHV）-6和-7国际会议上的部分演讲内容。这98场演讲——在一定程度上详细探讨了HHV-6的生物学特性、染色体整合的HHV-6、诊断检测以及HHV-6感染在疾病中的表现。会上报告了HHV-6和-7与多种疾病之间的关联，并且鉴于这些病毒在体外具有非常广泛的细胞嗜性，这些关联似乎是合理的。为了确定这些关联是否具有因果关系，改进诊断技术并扩大对可能的疾病关联的研究势在必行。拓展近期在确定针对HHV-6和-7的有效体外治疗方法方面取得的令人鼓舞的工作也很重要。
