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Prevalence of human herpesvirus 8 infection in people living with HIV/AIDS in Pernambuco, Brazil
Author(s) -
de Oliveira Mendes Cahú Georgea Gertrudes,
Morais Viviane Martha Santos,
Lopes Thaisa Regina Rocha,
da Silva Dayvson Maurício,
TozettoMendoza Tania Regina,
Pannuti Claudio Sergio,
Cunha Duarte Coêlho Maria Rosângela
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.24550
Subject(s) - seroprevalence , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , men who have sex with men , medicine , cross sectional study , serology , demography , immunology , biology , environmental health , antibody , syphilis , pathology , sociology
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 . © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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