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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 68(4), 2003, pp. 501-502
Copyright © 2003 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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INFECTION WITH HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-8 AND ITS CORRELATION WITH HEPATITIS B VIRUS AND HEPATITIS C VIRUS MARKERS AMONG RURAL POPULATIONS IN CAMBODIA

LOREDANA SARMATI, MASSIMO ANDREONI, BARBARA SULIGOI, ROBERTO BUGARINI, ILARIA UCCELLA, EDOARDO POZIO, AND GIOVANNI REZZA
Department of Public Health, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy; AIDS & STD Unit, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Laboratory of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Among 164 individuals in a rural population of Cambodia, antibodies to human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) were found among 56.6% of the women and 50.6% of the men. Seropositivity for HHV-8 tended to decrease with age (P < 0.001) and was not associated with exposure to hepatitis B virus (HBV) or HCV. Human herpesvirus-8, which shows a high rate of infection during childhood, does not seem to have the same pattern of transmission as HBV. This suggests very early acquisition of infection with HHV-8 in Cambodia.

Received July 15, 2002. Accepted for publication January 9, 2003.

Acknowledgments: Sample sera were collected during field activities of the Cambodia Schistosomiasis Control Program. We thank Médecins Sans Frontières for supporting this program and the Swiss Tropical Institute (Basel, Switzerland) for technical support. We also thank Dr. C. Urbani for establishing links with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Marco Montano for technical assistance.

Financial support This work was supported by a grant from Progetto Ricerche AIDS, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Ministry of Health to Dr. Massimo Andreoni and Dr. Giovanni Rezza.

Authors’ addresses: Loredana Sarmati, Massimo Andreoni, and Ilaria Uccella, Department of Public Health, Tor Vergata University, Via Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, Italy, Telephone/Fax: 39-6-7259-6873, E-mail: sarmati{at}med.uniroma2.it. Barbara Suligoi, Roberto Bugarini, and Giovanni Rezza, AIDS & STD Unit, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Via le Regina Elena, Rome, Italy. Edoardo Pozio, Laboratory of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Via le Regina Elena, Rome, Italy.




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