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Human herpesvirus-8 and other viral infections, Papua New Guinea
G Rezza1, R T Danaya, T M Wagner
1Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. g.rezza@iss.it
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 19, 2001
Abstract:
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.