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

Quentin Le Hingrat; Mada Ghanem; Aurélie Cazes; Benoit Visseaux; Gilles Collin; Diane Descamps; Charlotte Charpentier; Bruno Crestani

doi:10.1183/23120541.00243-2020

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

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

Authors

Quentin Le Hingrat^{1

2

3}, Mada Ghanem^{4

3}, Aurélie Cazes⁵, Benoit Visseaux^{1

2}, Gilles Collin^{1

2}, Diane Descamps^{1

2}, Charlotte Charpentier^{1

2}, Bruno Crestani⁴

Affiliations

¹ Université de Paris, INSERM UMR 1137 IAME, Paris, France.
² AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Laboratoire de Virologie, Paris, France.
³ These authors contributed equally.
⁴ AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Service de Pneumologie, Centre de référence des maladies pulmonaires rares, Université de Paris, INSERM UMR1152, Paris, France.
⁵ AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Service d'Anatomo-cytopathologie, Université de Paris, INSERM UMR1152F Paris, France.

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.