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Seroprevalence of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and risk factors in Xinjiang, China.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2009
Fu Bishi, Sun Feng, Li Baolin, Yang Lei, Zeng Yan, Sun Xiulian, Xu Fanhong, Rayner Simon, Guadalupe Moraima, Gao Shou-Jiang, Wang Linding
Abstract excerpt
Xinjiang, China is an endemic area for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) but the seroprevalence of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and risk factors remain undefined. In this study, antibodies to one KSHV latent protein (ORF73) and two KSHV lytic proteins (ORF65 and ORF-K8.1) were examined in 2,228 subjects from the general population and 37 subjects infected with HIV-1 in Xinjiang, and 560 subjects from the...
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