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Georgea Gertrudes de Oliveira Mendes Cahú1,2, Viviane Martha Santos Morais1,2, Thaisa Regina Rocha Lopes1, Dayvson Maurício da Silva1, Tania Regina Tozetto-Mendoza3, Claudio Sergio Pannuti3, Maria Rosângela Cunha Duarte Coêlho1,2,4.
Abstract
This cross-sectional study aimed to estimate the seroprevalence and risk factors for Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection among people living with HIV/AIDS in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. A total of 500 individuals were tested for antibodies against HHV-8 using the whole-virus ELISA. The prevalence of anti-HHV-8 was 28.6% and the frequency among 140 men who have sex with men (MSM) was 38.6%. In the univariate model, there were significant associations with male gender, detectable HIV load, travel abroad, bissexual, and homossexual orientation. The first HHV-8 seroepidemiologic study, in northeast Brazil, documents a highly prevalent HHV-8 infection among MSM living with HIV/AIDS. J. Med. Virol. 88:2016-2020, 2016.Entities:
Keywords: Brazil; human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8); human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); prevalence; sexually transmitted disease
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27089548 DOI： 10.1002/jmv.24550
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Virol ISSN： 0146-6615 Impact factor: 2.327