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Volume 7, Number 5—October 2001
Dispatch

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

Giovanni Rezza*Comments to Author , Robert T. Danaya†, Theresa M. Wagner*, Loredana Sarmati‡, Ifor L. Owen§, Paolo Monini*, Massimo Andreoni‡, Barbara Suligoi*, Barbara Ensoli*, and Edoardo Pozio*
Author affiliations: *Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; †Port Moresby General Hospital, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; ‡Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy; §National Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Boroko, Papua New Guinea

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Table 1

Seroprevalence of human herpesvirus-8 and other infections, stratified by geographic area, age, and sex

Urban HHV-8a
 Epstein-Barr virus
 Hepatitis C virus
 Herpes simplex virus
Age (years) Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban Rural Urban
<25 13/72
(18.1%) 2/11
(18.2%) 61/66
(93.0%) 11/11
(100.0%) 7/71
(9.9%) 0/11 1/72
(1.4%) 2/11
(18.2%)
25-35 3/12
(25.0%) 3/16
(18.7%) 10/12
(83.3%) 16/16
(100.0%) 1/12
(8.3%) 2/16
(12.5%) 3/12b
(25.0%) 3/15
(20.0%)
>35 4/10
(40.0%) 12/29
(41.4%) 10/10
(100.0%) 28/29
(96.6%) 2/10
(20.0%) 0/29 3/9b
(33.3%) 11/28
(39.3%)
Male 14/62
(22.6%) 13/37
(35.1%) 56/61
(91.8%) 36/37
(97.3%) 6/61
(9.8%) 1/37
(2.7%) 5/61
(8.2%) 10/36
(27.8%)
Female
 6/32
(18.7%)
 4/19
(21.0%)
 30/32
(93.7%)
 19/19
(100.0%)
 4/32
(12.5%)
 1/19
(5.3%)
 2/32
(6.2%)
 6/18
(33.3%)
Total 20/94
(21.3%) 17/56
(30.4%) 86/93
(92.5%) 55/56
(98.2%) 10/93
(10.7%) 2/56
(3.6%) 7/93
(7.5%) 16/54c
(29.6%)

aHHV-8 = human herpesvirus-8.
bChi-square p-value <0.05, comparing age groups in rural and urban strata with reference group: <25 years.
cChi-square p-value <0.05, comparing rural with urban.

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