Human herpesvirus 8 seroprevalence and evaluation of nonsexual transmission routes by detection of DNA in clinical specimens from human immunodeficiency virus-seronegative patients from central and southern Italy, with and without Kaposi's sarcoma

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1150-1153

  Cattani, Paola ^a   Capuano, Maria ^a   Cerimele, Francesca ^a   La Parola, Ilaria Lesnoni ^a   Santangelo, Rosaria ^a   Masini, Cinzia ^a   Cerimele, Decio ^a   Fadda, Giovanni ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ITALY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DNA VIRUSES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0033066729     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.4.1150-1153.1999     Document Type: Article

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