Serological and molecular evidence that human herpesvirus 8 is endemic among Amerindians in French Guiana

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 192, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1525-1529

  Kazanji, Mirdad ^a,c   Dussart, Philippe ^a   Duprez, Renan ^c   Tortevoye, Patricia ^c   Pouliquen, Jean François ^a   Vandekerkhove, Julie ^a   Couppié, Pierre ^b   Morvan, Jacques ^a   Talarmin, Antoine ^a   Gessain, Antoine ^c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BRAZIL; ECUADOR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FRENCH GUIANA; GENES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 27144440134     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/491744     Document Type: Article

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