Human herpesvirus 8 seroprevalence, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 150-152

  Zhang, Tiejun ^a,b   Shao, Xiaodan ^a   Chen, Yue ^c   Zhang, Tao ^a   Minhas, Veenu ^a,b   Wood, Charles ^a,b   He, Na ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CHINA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 84863052137     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.102070     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Hoffman LJ, Bunker CH, Pellett PE, Trump DL, Patrick AL, Dollard SC, et al. Elevated seroprevalence of human herpesvirus 8 among men with prostate cancer. J Infect Dis. 2004;189:15-20. doi:10.1086/380568
2. Laney AS, Peters JS, Manzi SM, Kingsley LA, Chang Y, Moore PS. Use of a multiantigen detection algorithm for diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection. J Clin Microbiol. 2006;44:3734-41. doi:10.1128/JCM.00191-06
3. Pellett PE, Wright DJ, Engels EA, Ablashi DV, Dollard SC, Forghani B, et al. Multicenter comparison of serologic assays and estimation of human herpesvirus 8 seroprevalence among US blood donors. Transfusion. 2003;43:1260-8. doi:10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00490.x
4. Huang LM, Huang SY, Chen MY, Chao MF, Lu CY, Tien HF, et al. Geographical differences in human herpesvirus 8 seroepidemiology: a survey of 1,201 individuals in Asia. J Med Virol. 2000;60:290-3. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(200003)60:3<290::AID-JMV7>3.0.CO;2-G
5. Baeten JM, Chohan BH, Lavreys L, Rakwar JP, Ashley R, Richardson BA, et al. Correlates of human herpesvirus 8 seropositivity among heterosexual men in Kenya. AIDS. 2002;16:2073-8. doi:10.1097/00002030-200210180-00013
6. Engels EA, Sinclair MD, Biggar RJ, Whitby D, Ebbesen P, Goedert JJ, et al. Latent class analysis of human herpesvirus 8 assay performance and infection prevalence in sub-saharan Africa and Malta. Int J Cancer. 2000;88:1003-8. doi:10.1002/1097-0215(20001215)88:6<1003::AID-IJC26>3.0.CO;2-9
7. Rezza G, Tchangmena OB, Andreoni M, Bugarini R, Toma L, Bakary DK, et al. Prevalence and risk factors for human herpesvirus 8 infection in northern Cameroon. Sex Transm Dis. 2000;27:159-64. doi:10.1097/00007435-200003000-00008
8. Butler LM, Dorsey G, Hladik W, Rosenthal PJ, Brander C, Neilands TB, et al. Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) seroprevalence in population-based samples of African children: evidence for at least 2 patterns of KSHV transmission. J Infect Dis. 2009;200:430-8. doi:10.1086/600103
9. Mbulaiteye S, Marshall V, Bagni RK, Wang CD, Mbisa G, Bakaki PM, et al. Molecular evidence for mother-to-child transmission of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus in Uganda and K1 gene evolution within the host. J Infect Dis. 2006;193:1250-7. doi:10.1086/503052
10. Dukers NH, Renwick N, Prins M, Geskus RB, Schulz TF, Weverling GJ, et al. Risk factors for human herpesvirus 8 seropositivity and seroconversion in a cohort of homosexual men. Am J Epidemiol. 2000;151:213-24.
11. Hladik W, Dollard SC, Mermin J, Fowlkes AL, Downing R, Amin MM, et al. Transmission of human herpesvirus 8 by blood transfusion. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:1331-8. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa055009
12. Ministry of Health of China. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization. The Estimation of HIV/AIDS in China in 2009. Beijing: Ministry of Health; 2010. p. 10.
13. Dilnur P, Katano H, Wang ZH, Osakabe Y, Kudo M, Sata T, et al. Classic type of Kaposi's sarcoma and human herpesvirus 8 infection in Xinjiang, China. Pathol Int. 2001;51:845-52. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1827.2001.01293.x
14. Parisi SG, Sarmati L, Pappagallo M, Mazzi R, Carolo G, Farchi F, et al. Prevalence trend and correlates of HHV-8 infection in HIVinfected patients. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002;29:295-9.
15. Chakraborty R, Rees G, Bourboulia D, Cross AM, Dixon JR, D'Agostino A, et al. Viral coinfections among African children infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Clin Infect Dis. 2003;36:922-4. doi:10.1086/368207