Prevalence of human herpesvirus-8 infection in HIV-positive patients with and without Kaposi's sarcoma in Hungary

Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) infection of 130 Hungarian HIV-positive individuals with or without Kaposi's sarcoma was investigated from 158 serum and 122 peripheral blood samples using anti-latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA), recombinant orf65 and orfK8.1 antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), Western blot assays and orf26 specific nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The overall prevalence of HHV-8 infection was found to be 31.5% (41/130) among the Hungarian HIV-positive patients. This seroprevalence rate is 7-11-fold higher than that of healthy HIV-negative blood donors in Hungary. The highest prevalence of HHV-8 infection (36.1%, 35/97) was observed in homo- or bisexual patients. Similar to the serologic results, HHV-8 DNA was not always detectable in all serial samples previously shown to be positive for HHV-8 DNA.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2005

Erschienen:

2005

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 43(2005), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 265-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Szalai, Erika [VerfasserIn]
Gerlei, Zsuzsanna [VerfasserIn]
Szlávik, János [VerfasserIn]
Szládek, Györgyi [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Ravi [VerfasserIn]
Hunyadi, János [VerfasserIn]
Gergely, Lajos [VerfasserIn]
Juhász, Attila [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Antibodies, Viral
Antigens, Viral
Journal Article
Latency-associated nuclear antigen
Nuclear Proteins
ORF65 protein, human herpesvirus 8
Recombinant Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Viral Proteins

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 04.08.2005

Date Revised 15.11.2006

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM153399449