ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2017
Association of Household Food- and Drink-Sharing Practices With Human Herpesvirus 8 Seroconversion in a Cohort of Zambian Children.
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- Is human herpesvirus 8 infection more common in men than in women? an updated meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Kaposi's Sarcoma: A Non-Communicable Outcome Mainly Prompted by Communicable Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Premastication-Review of an Infant Feeding Practice and Its Potential Impact on Allergy and Microbiome Development.Allergy · 2025Review
- A replication-deficient gammaherpesvirus vaccine protects mice from lytic disease and reduces latency establishment.NPJ vaccines · 2024Article
- Infant feeding and treatment practices could lead to enhanced transmission of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and other orally shed infections via saliva, in rural south-western Uganda.Global public health · 2024Article
- Effects of Maternal HIV Infection on Early Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Seroconversion in a Kenyan Mother-Infant Cohort.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Malignancy and viral infections in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review.Frontiers in virology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Environmental determinants of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) transmission in rural Uganda (ENDKU study): Contributions to research on KSHV infection and reactivation in African children; A longitudinal cohort study.Cancer epidemiology · 2022Article
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- Narrative review of non-pharmaceutical behavioural measures for the prevention of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) based on the Health-EDRM framework.British medical bulletin · 2020Review
- Malaria during pregnancy and transplacental transfer of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) antibodies: a cohort study of Kenyan mother and child pairs.Infectious agents and cancer · 2020Article
- Pediatric Kaposi sarcoma in context of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: current perspectives.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2018Review
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Background: Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection occurs in early childhood and is associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and risk for Kaposi sarcoma, but behaviors associated with HHV-8 transmission are not well described. Methods: We enrolled and followed a prospective cohort of 270 children and their household members to investigate risk factors for HHV-8 transmission in Lusaka, Zambia. Results: We report an incidence of 30.07 seroconversions per 100 child-years. Independent risk factors for HHV-8 incident infection included having a child who shared utensils with a primary caregiver (hazards ratio [HR], 2.33; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.49-7.14), having an increasing number of HHV-8-infected household members (HR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.09-2.79), and having ≥5 siblings/children in the household (HR, 2.24; 95% CI, 1.03-4.88). Playing with >5 children a day was protective against infection (HR, 0.54; 95% CI, .33-0.89), as was increasing child age (HR, 0.96; 95% CI, .93-.99). Conclusions: This is the first study to find a temporal association between limited child feeding behaviors and risk for HHV-8 infection. Child food- and drink-sharing behaviors should be included in efforts to minimize HHV-8 transmission, and households with a large number of siblings should receive additional counseling as childhood infections occur in the home context.
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