epidemiology of kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (hhv8) in västerbotten county, sweden. | a population-based serosurvey of human herpesvirus type 8 (hhv8) in västerbotten county, an area of northern sweden with high incidence of kaposi's sarcoma, was conducted. serum samples from an age- and sex-stratified random sample of 520 subjects (260 men and 260 women) participating in a population-based biobanking project were tested for antibodies against hhv8, using a sensitive indirect immunofluorescence assay to latent and lytic hhv8 antigens. buffy coat dna was also analyzed for viral dn ... | 2006 | 16419115 |