Seroprevalence of HHV-8, CMV, and EBV among the general population in Ghana, West Africa

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Adjei, Andrew A ^a   Armah, Henry B ^a   Gbagbo, Foster ^a   Boamah, Isaac ^a   Adu Gyamfi, Clement ^a   Asare, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YATES CONTINUITY CORRECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD DONORS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GHANA; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 51349093282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-111     Document Type: Article

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