Assessment of a Combined Testing Strategy for Detection of Antibodies to Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in Persons with Kaposi's Sarcoma, Persons with Asymptomatic HHV-8 Infection, and Persons at Low Risk for HHV-8 Infection
Open Access
- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (10) , 3822-3825
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.10.3822-3825.2002
Abstract
The performance of a human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and selective subsequent use of an HHV-8 immunofluorescence assay (IFA) was tested in persons unlikely to be infected with HHV-8 and those who had HHV-8 detected in their saliva. The IFA was performed on samples within a range of EIA optical densities (0.15 to 0.35) where there was considerable overlap between HHV-8-infected and uninfected individuals. The sensitivity of the testing strategy was 88%, with a specificity of 97%.Keywords
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