Seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 among Zambian women of childbearing age without Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and mother-child pairs with KS

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1787-1790

  He, Jun ^b   Bhat, Ganapati ^b   Kankasa, Chipepo ^b   Chintu, Chifumbe ^b   Mitchell, Charles ^b   Duan, Wenjing ^b   Wood, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS DETECTION; ZAMBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0031766131     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314512     Document Type: Article

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