| prevalence of cytomegalovirus, human herpesvirus-6, and epstein-barr virus in periodontitis patients and healthy subjects in the thai population. | fifty periodontitis patients and 30 healthy patients with oral cavities were selected from the faculty of dentistry, mahidol university, bangkok, thailand, from march 2001 to november 2002. their ages varied between 15 and 70 years. among the periodontitis patients, specimens were collected from both disease and healthy sites. all samples were evaluated for the presence of cmv, hhv-6, and ebv-1 by nested pcr. among the periodontitis patients, cmv was found in 34%, of which 8% were at the disease ... | 2004 | 15689080 |
| seroprevalence of anti-human herpes virus-6 igg antibody in children of bangkok, thailand. | the prevalence of hhv-6 infection was surveyed by determining the presence of anti-human herpesvirus-6 igg (anti-hhv-6 igg) using an elisa method. two hundred and ten sera collected from healthy thai children aged between 0 to 12 years (mean +/- standard deviation = 3.35+/-3.33) indicated the prevalence of hhv-6 infection was 88.10% (185/210). samples were classified into 7 groups, 30 samples each, according to their ages, ie, group 1: 0 - < 6 months; group 2: 6 - < 12 months; group 3: 12 - < 18 ... | 2001 | 11485077 |