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. 2020 Aug 17;6(3):00243-2020.
doi: 10.1183/23120541.00243-2020. eCollection 2020 Jul.

No association between human herpesvirus or herpesvirus saimiri and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Quentin Le Hingrat  1   2   3 , Mada Ghanem  4   3 , Aurélie Cazes  5 , Benoit Visseaux  1   2 , Gilles Collin  1   2 , Diane Descamps  1   2 , Charlotte Charpentier  1   2 , Bruno Crestani  4
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No association between human herpesvirus or herpesvirus saimiri and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Quentin Le Hingrat et al. ERJ Open Res. .

Abstract

There is a high prevalence of human herpesviruses in lung samples of IPF patients but this does not differ from controls, neither regarding prevalence, viral load levels nor co-infection rates. Herpesvirus saimiri DNA is not detected in any lung samples. https://bit.ly/2ZrKiDJ.

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Conflict of interest: Q. Le Hingrat has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Ghanem has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: A. Cazes has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: B. Visseaux has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: G. Collin has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: D. Descamps reports personal fees for advisory board participation from ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, MSD and Janssen-Cilag, outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: C. Charpentier reports personal fees from Gilead, personal fees from MSD, personal fees from ViiV, personal fees from Janssen, outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: B. Crestani reports speaker honoraria and support to attend a congress from AstraZeneca; grants, speaker honoraria support to attend a congress from Boehringer Ingelheim and Roche; speaker honoraria, honoraria for consultancy and support to attend a congress from Sanofi; personal fees for membership of an advisory board from Genzyme; and personal fees for membership of an advisory board and support to attend a congress from BMS, all outside the submitted work.

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