Prevalence and determinants of anti-lytic and anti-latent antibodies to human herpesvirus-8 among Italian individuals at risk of sexually and parenterally transmitted infections

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 361-365

  Rezza, Giovanni ^a   Lennette, Evelyne T ^b   Giuliani, Massimo ^a   Pezzotti, Patrizio ^a   Caprilli, Federico ^c   Monini, Paolo ^a   Buttò, Stefano ^a   Lodi, Gianluca ^d   Di Carlo, Aldo ^c   Levy, Jay A ^b   Ensoli, Barbara ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d S ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 0031807157     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980729)77:3<361::AID-IJC9>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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