TABLE 1.

Description of study population and EIA results

Source of specimens	No. of subjects (% of total)	Median OD (range)	% of subjects with indicated OD
			>0.35	0.15-0.35	<0.15	0.15-0.35 (positive by IFA retesting)
Low-risk subjects
University of Washington women undergraduates	51 (18)	0.14 (0.03-0.32)	0	43.1	56.9	0
Women who have sex with women	47 (17)	0.09 (0.02-0.30)	0	25.5	74.5	0
Men and women with genital herpes or with a     partner with genital herpes but no other STIa	90 (32)	0.10 (0-0.61)	4.4	24.5	71.1	12.5
Other (lab worker and negative control)	2 (0.7)	0.04 (0.03-0.06)	0	0	100	0
Total for low-risk subjects	190 (67)	0.11 (0-0.61)	2.1	29.5	68.4	4
High-risk subjects
Men who have sex with men and had HHV-8     DNA detected in their saliva	63 (22)	0.64 (0.07-1.87)	69.8	23.8	6.4	67
Subjects with KS	29 (11)	1.17 (0.09-2.74)	75.9	17.2	6.9	100
Total for high-risk subjects	92 (33)	0.66 (0.07-2.64)	71.7	21.8	6.5	69
Overall total	282 (100)	0.16 (0-2.74)	24.8	27.0	48.2	73

^aSTI, sexually transmitted infection.