“…This represents the highest KSHV viral load on record (Table 1). By comparison KS patients (Polstra et al, 2003, Sayer et al, 2011) typically have a mean KSHV viral load of 1000 copies / ml (range 151 – 26,915), PEL patients (Simonelli et al, 2009) of 10,284 copies / ml (range 2,558 – 36,300) and MCD (Simonelli et al, 2009) of 4,400 copies / ml (range 600 – 1,678,000). KS malignancies are AIDS defining, but rarely associated with high-level virus replication.…”