Detection of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus in oral and genital secretions of Zimbabwean women

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1785-1790

  Lampinen, Thomas M ^a   Kulasingam, Shalini ^a   Juno, Min ^b   Borok, Margaret ^d   Gwanzura, Lovemore ^d   Lamb, Julie ^b   Mahomed, Kassam ^d   Woelk, Godfrey B ^d   Strand, Kurt B ^a   Bosch, Marnix L ^a   Edelman, Daniel C ^e   Constantine, Niel T ^e,f   Katzenstein, David ^b,c   Williams, Michelle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CERVIX UTERI; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VAGINA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0034089565     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315426     Document Type: Article

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