Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2001)

Human Herpesvirus-8 and Other Viral Infections, Papua New Guinea

  • Giovanni Rezza,
  • Robert T. Danaya,
  • Theresa M. Wagner,
  • Loredana Sarmati,
  • Ifor L. Owen,
  • Paolo Monini,
  • Massimo Andreoni,
  • Barbara Suligoi,
  • Barbara Ensoli,
  • Edoardo Pozio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0705.017522
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 5
pp. 893 – 895

Abstract

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We studied residents of remote villages and the capital (Port Moresby) of Papua New Guinea to determine the distribution of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) infection. Our data suggest that HHV-8 has been endemic on the island for a long time and that the epidemiologic pattern of HHV-8 is more similar to that of herpes simplex virus-2 than hepatitis C virus.

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