Journal article
Human cytomegalovirus epidemiology and relationship to tuberculosis and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a rural Ugandan cohort
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection has been associated with increased mortality, specifically cardiovascular disease (CVD), in high-income countries (HICs). There is a paucity of data in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where HCMV seropositivity is higher. Serum samples from 2,174 Ugandan individuals were investigated for HCMV antibodies and data linked to demographic information, co-infections and a variety of CVD measurements. HCMV seropositivity was 83% by one year of age, incr...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- e0192086
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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29408860
- Source identifiers:
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898165
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- English
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pubs:898165
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uuid:374dcb79-3f04-44c1-a08e-13af1813a19d
- Local pid:
- pubs:898165
- Deposit date:
- 2019-06-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Stockdale et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 Stockdale et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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