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Enquist Laboratory, Princeton University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Eight different herpesviruses have humans as their natural hosts: herpes simplex virus type 1, herpes simplex virus type 2, varicella-zoster virus, Epstein-Barr virus, human cytomegalovirus, human herpesvirus 6, human herpesvirus 7, human herpesvirus 8 (also known as Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus). |
 | | There are four genera in the alphaherpesvirinae subfamily: simplexvirus, varicellovirus, Marek's disease-like viruses, and infectious laryngotracheitis-like viruses. |
 | | There are 18 members of the varicellovirus genus and human varicella-zoster virus is the type species. |
| www.molbio.princeton.edu /labs/enquist/research/prv.html (585 words) |
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