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Serological and Molecular Evidence That Human Herpesvirus 8 Is Endemic among Amerindians in French Guiana

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Kazanji, Mirdad | Dussart, Philippe | Duprez, Renan | Tortevoye, Patricia | Pouliquen, Jean-François | Vandekerkhove, Julie | Couppié, Pierre | Morvan, Jacques | Talarmin, Antoine | Gessain, Antoine

Edité par CCSD ; Oxford University Press -

International audience. We evaluated the presence of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection among groups of Amerindians in French Guiana. The overall prevalence of antibodies against lytic HHV-8 antigens was 23.0% (180/781), increasing from 18.4% in children <6 years old to approximately 30% in older persons (>45 years). Seroprevalence was higher in Amerindians living in remote localities than it was in those living in the coastal region. Analysis of a 725-base pair fragment of the K1 gene amplified from DNA from a Wayampi Amerindian showed that the virus belonged to molecular subtype E, which has hitherto been found in only a few Amerindians in Brazil and Ecuador.

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