HIV-infected patients that progress to AIDS suffer from a variety of opportunistic infections that rarely cause disease in healthy individuals. In addition, many of these patients acquire malignancies, such as B-cell lymphomas or Kaposi's sarcoma. A common feature of these two malignancies is that they are:
A) Each associated with a herpesvirus infection
B) Never seen in non-AIDS patients
C) The only two diseases caused by herpesviruses
D) Normally prevented by high affinity antibody responses
E) Normally eliminated by activated NK cells

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Both B-cell lymphomas and Kaposi's sarcoma are associated with a herpesvirus infection. B-cell lymphomas are associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, while Kaposi's sarcoma is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) infection, also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8).

HIV-Infected Patients That Progress to AIDS Suffer from a Variety