Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon

We evaluated the prevalence of HHV-8 antibodies in 516 plasma samples collected from HIV positive and negative patients from blood banks and urban areas of Cameroon. Among HIV-1 positive samples, HHV-8 seropositivity rate was 61% based on combined reactivity using both ELISA and IFA techniques. HIV...

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Autores principales: Mbondji-Wonje, Christelle, Ragupathy, Viswanath, Lee, Sherwin, Wood, Owen, Awazi, Bih, Hewlett, Indira K.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3798899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24056671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v5092253
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author Mbondji-Wonje, Christelle
Ragupathy, Viswanath
Lee, Sherwin
Wood, Owen
Awazi, Bih
Hewlett, Indira K.
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description We evaluated the prevalence of HHV-8 antibodies in 516 plasma samples collected from HIV positive and negative patients from blood banks and urban areas of Cameroon. Among HIV-1 positive samples, HHV-8 seropositivity rate was 61% based on combined reactivity using both ELISA and IFA techniques. HIV negative samples showed 62% seropositivity rate for HHV-8 antibodies. Our results indicate a high HHV-8 prevalence rate in both HIV infected and uninfected individuals in Cameroon.
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spelling pubmed-37988992013-10-21 Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon Mbondji-Wonje, Christelle Ragupathy, Viswanath Lee, Sherwin Wood, Owen Awazi, Bih Hewlett, Indira K. Viruses Article We evaluated the prevalence of HHV-8 antibodies in 516 plasma samples collected from HIV positive and negative patients from blood banks and urban areas of Cameroon. Among HIV-1 positive samples, HHV-8 seropositivity rate was 61% based on combined reactivity using both ELISA and IFA techniques. HIV negative samples showed 62% seropositivity rate for HHV-8 antibodies. Our results indicate a high HHV-8 prevalence rate in both HIV infected and uninfected individuals in Cameroon. MDPI 2013-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3798899/ /pubmed/24056671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v5092253 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Mbondji-Wonje, Christelle
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title Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon
title_full Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon
title_fullStr Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon
title_short Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus-8 in HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Individuals in Cameroon
title_sort seroprevalence of human herpesvirus-8 in hiv-1 infected and uninfected individuals in cameroon
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3798899/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v5092253
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