Seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 and its association with Kaposi sarcoma in Brazil

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 468-472

  Zago, Adriana ^a,b   Bourboulia, Dimitra ^c   Viana, Maria Carmen ^a,e   Collandre, Hélène ^d   Dietze, Reynaldo ^a   Boshoff, Chris ^c   Keller, Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Referência Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis AIDS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e Hospital da Santa Casa de Misericórdia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0033842886     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-200009000-00009     Document Type: Article

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