2016
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24550
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Prevalence of human herpesvirus 8 infection in people living with HIV/AIDS in Pernambuco, Brazil

Abstract: This cross-sectional study aimed to estimate the seroprevalence and risk factors for Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection among people living with HIV/AIDS in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. A total of 500 individuals were tested for antibodies against HHV-8 using the whole-virus ELISA. The prevalence of anti-HHV-8 was 28.6% and the frequency among 140 men who have sex with men (MSM) was 38.6%. In the univariate model, there were significant associations with male gender, detectable HIV load, travel abroad, bisse… Show more

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“…The study population did not differ in age and sex when compared to other studies evaluating PLWHA infected with HHV-8 [4, 8, 3133]. Similarly, the median HIV viral load and TCD4 count did not show a statistically significant difference between the HIV/HHV-8 coinfected and the HIV monoinfected patients, corroborating works that also evaluated these clinical characteristics [31, 32, 34].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…The study population did not differ in age and sex when compared to other studies evaluating PLWHA infected with HHV-8 [4, 8, 3133]. Similarly, the median HIV viral load and TCD4 count did not show a statistically significant difference between the HIV/HHV-8 coinfected and the HIV monoinfected patients, corroborating works that also evaluated these clinical characteristics [31, 32, 34].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…This is a cross section of PLWHA, with and without HHV-8 infection, in which patients’ demographic and laboratory variable data were originally described by Cahú et al [ 32 ] in a research on the HIV/HHV-8 coinfection prevalence in 500 PLWHA, reporting 143 HIV/HHV-8 coinfected and 357 HIV monoinfected. Of this total, we randomly selected 124 HIV/HHV-8 coinfected and 213 HIV monoinfected patients, by the statistical program Epi Info version 7.1.5 (CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA), who were followed up by the doctors from the outpatient clinic Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in the Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Pernambuco.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%