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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(20):1569-1571; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.20.1569
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 20, 1569-1571, October 17, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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Prevalence of Human Herpesvirus 8 Antibodies in Young Adults in Denmark (1976–1977)

Henrik Hjalgrim, Inga Lind, Klaus Rostgaard, Mads Melbye, Morten Frisch, Andrea Stossel, Karin Reimann, Robert J. Biggar, Denise Whitby

H. Hjalgrim, K. Rostgaard, M. Melbye, M. Frisch (Department of Epidemiology Research), I. Lind, K. Reimann (ALMOS), Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark; A. Stossel, D. Whitby, Viral Epidemiology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, MD; R. J. Biggar, Viral Epidemiology Branch, NCI, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence to: Henrik Hjalgrim, M.D., Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark (e-mail: hhj@ssi.dk).

Serologic studies (1–5) indicate that an epidemic of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) or Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus, the viral etiologic agent of KS, occurred among homosexual men in the United States and in Europe concurrently with the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV) epidemic in the early 1980s. However, studies from the United States (1,6) suggest that HHV8 possibly had become prevalent in some gay communities before the HIV epidemic. Thus, in the first decade of the U.S. HIV epidemic, the risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related KS in homosexual men was higher in HIV epicenters, such as New York, than elsewhere (6). Accordingly, the risk among homosexual men of being or becoming HHV8 infected from 1982 through 1990 was higher in New York than in Washington, DC (1).

Little is known about the epidemiology of HHV8 in Europe before . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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