FREQUENT ISOLATION OF HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-7 FROM SALIVA SAMPLES

Authors
HIDAKA Y LIU Y YAMAMOTO M MORI R MIYAZAKI C KUSUHARA K OKADA K UEDA K
Citation
Y. Hidaka et al., FREQUENT ISOLATION OF HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-7 FROM SALIVA SAMPLES, Journal of medical virology, 40(4), 1993, pp. 343-346
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Virology
Journal title
Journal of medical virology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01466615
Volume
40
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
343 - 346
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-6615(1993)40:4<343:FIOHHF>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) was isolated frequently from saliva specim ens. The isolation rates were 81% (13/16) in adults, 70% (7/10) in chi ldren over 1 year old, and none (0/7) in children less than 1 year old , respectively, indicating that infection of HHV-7 occurs during early infancy and the virus shedding rate after infection is very high. Hum an herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) was not isolated from saliva specimens althou gh some studies on isolation of HHV-6 from saliva was reported previou sly. (C) 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.