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HHV8: seroprevalence in Sicily
Socio-Economic
and
Other
Correlates
of
KaposiSarcoma-Associated
Herpesvirus
SeroprevalenceAmong
Older
Adults
in
SicilyColleen
Pelser,1,2
Francesco
Vitale,3
Denise
Whitby,4
Barry
I.
Graubard,1
Angelo
Messina,5Lorenzo
Gafa`
,6
Elizabeth
E.
Brown,7
Lesley
A.
Anderson,1,8
Nino
Romano,3Carmela
Lauria,6
and
James
J.
Goedert1*1Division
of
Cancer
Epidemiology
&
Genetics,
National
Cancer
Institute,
National
Institutes
of
Health,Rockville,
MarylandThe
virus
that
causes
Kaposi
sarcoma,
KSassociated
herpesvirus
(KSHV,
also
knownas
human
herpesvirus
8)
has
an
unusual
distribution
and
poorly
characterized
modes
oftransmission.
To
clarify
these
issues,
sociodemographic
correlates
of
KSHV
seroprevalencewere
...continua
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Hungarian physician and dermatologist, born October 23, 1837, Kaposvár; died March 6, 1902.
