High prevalence of antibodies to human herpesvirus 8 in relatives of patients with classic Kaposi's sarcoma from Sardinia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1715-1718

  Angeloni, Antonio ^b   Heston, Lee ^b   Uccini, Stefania ^b   Sirianni, Maria Caterina ^b   Cottoni, Francesca ^b   Masala, Maria Vittoria ^b   Cerimele, Decio ^b   Lin, Su Fang ^b   Sun, Ren ^b   Rigsby, Michael ^b   Faggioni, Alberto ^b   Miller, George ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS CAPSID ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SIBLING; SPOUSE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 17344363192     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517429     Document Type: Article

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