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Caterino-de-Araujo,Adele; Manuel,Rolanda Carmen Rafael; Bianco,Rosana Del; Santos-Fortuna,Elizabeth; Magri,Mariana Cavalheiro; Silva,Joyce Matie Kinoshita; Bastos,Rui. |
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the etiological agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), is endemic in parts of the sub-Saharan, and KS has increased concomitantly with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In Mozambique (MZ), no data concerning HHV-8 infection was available, thus the main of this work was to investigate, for the first time, the presence of HHV-8 infection in Maputo, MZ. Latent and lytic HHV-8-specific antibodies were assessed in blood samples from 189 individuals from the Central Hospital of Maputo, MZ, using "in-house" immunofluorescence assays conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. The results obtained were analyzed according to socio-demographic and clinical variables using the Chi-square test and logistic regression. An HHV-8 seropositivity of 1.8% and 9.7% was... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8); Serology; Mozambique; Frequency; Kaposi's sarcoma. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702009000300008 |
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