Survey for the Presence of Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) Infection in Mozambique
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First survey for detecting the presence of human herpesvirus 8 infection (HHV-8) in Maputo, Mozambique.
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the etiological agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), is endemic in parts of the sub-Saharan, and KS has increased concomitantly with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In Mozambique (MZ), no data concerning HHV-8 infection was available, thus the main of this work was to investigate, for the first time, the presence of HHV-8 infection in Maputo, MZ. Latent and lytic HHV-8-specific a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.05.215