| human immunodeficiency virus infection in the united kingdom: quarterly report 3. | up to 31 march 1988, 1429 cases meeting the world health organization/centers for disease control (u.s.a.) definition of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) were reported in the u.k. of which 59 were in visitors and 1370 in u.k. residents. in the same period there were 8459 laboratory reports of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) antibody-positive tests. since 1985 the median interval of 2 months between diagnosis and report of aids has not changed. most patients with kaposi's sarcoma ... | 1989 | 2915132 |
| human herpesvirus 8: seroepidemiology among women and detection in the genital tract of seropositive women. | an indirect ifa to detect antibodies against latent nuclear antigens of human herpesvirus 8 (hhv-8) was used to determine the prevalence of hhv-8 antibodies in 169 women attending a sexually transmitted diseases clinic and a human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) clinic at a london hospital. nested polymerase chain reaction was used to detect hhv-8 dna in 93 blood samples and 89 cervical brush scrapes (cbs). another 96 cbs from women attending a colposcopy clinic were also analyzed. the overall sero ... | 1999 | 9841845 |
| serologic evidence of human herpesvirus 8 transmission by homosexual but not heterosexual sex. | epidemiologic studies link kaposi's sarcoma with a sexually transmitted agent. human herpesvirus 8 (hhv-8) is likely to be that agent, but routes of transmission are poorly described. a seroepidemiologic study was conducted to determine whether hhv-8 is transmitted sexually between heterosexuals. sera from 2718 patients attending a sexually transmitted disease (std) clinic were tested for antibodies to hhv-8 and herpes simplex virus type 2 (hsv-2). information on sex partners in the previous 12 ... | 1999 | 10438345 |
| comparative study of kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus serological assays using clinically and serologically defined reference standards and latent class analysis. | accurate determination of infection with kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (kshv) has been hindered by the lack of a "gold standard" for comparison of serological assays used to estimate kshv prevalence in serosurveys conducted in different settings. we have evaluated the performance of five in-house (developed at university college london [ucl], united kingdom, and at the virology laboratory of the instituto de medicine tropical [imt] in sao paulo, brazil) and two commercial (abi and diav ... | 2007 | 17182752 |