Epidemiology of human herpesvirus type 8 and parvovirus B19 infections and their association with HIV-1 among men who have sex with men and injection drug users in Taiwan》.pdf

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection (2014) 47, 233e238 Available online at journal homepage: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Epidemiology of human herpesvirus type 8 and parvovirus B19 infections and their association with HIV-1 among men who have sex with men and injection drug users in Taiwan Yuan-Ming Lee a,b,c, Shao-Yuan Chuang d, Sheng-Fan Wang a,e, Yu-Ting Lin a,*, Yi-Ming Arthur Chen a,f,g,** a AIDS Prevention and Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan b Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan c Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan Prefecture, Taiwan d Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan e Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan f Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan g Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Received 17 September 2012; received in revised form 10 December 2012; accepted 22 January 2013 Available online 5 March 2013 KEYWORDS Background/Purpose: Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the causal agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), HHV-8; is transmitted sexually among men who have sex with men (MSM), but little is known of its HIV-1/AIDS; transmission among injection drug users (IDUs). By contrast, human parvovirus B19 (B19), a Injection drug users; causative agent for anemia, is most frequently detected in IDUs. The aim of this study was Men who have sex to investigate the associations between HHV-8 infection and human immunodeficiency virus with men; type 1 (HIV-1), and between B-19 and HIV-1 among MSM and IDUs pat