. 2014 Sep 2;5(5):e01277-14. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01277-14

TABLE 2 .

Viral loads and protein expression in KS-negative and KS-positive study subjects^a

Study group	Subject no.	Plasma HHV-8 viral load (copies/ml)	B cell HHV-8 viral load (copies/500,000 cells)	% ORF59 PF-8⁺ B cells^a	Plasma HIV-1 viral load (copies/ml)
HHV-8⁺ HIV⁺ KS negatives (KS controls)	1	0	0	0.37	300
	2	0	ND^b	0.11	22,810
	3	10,154	0	0.94	24,409
	4	0	6,835	1.00	891,846
	5	0	ND	0.90	593
	6	0	0	0.60	34,227
	7	0	0	0.64	19,552
Mean ± SE		2,038 ± 2,038	1,367 ± 1,367	0.65 ± 0.12	141,962 ± 125,819
HHV-8⁺ HIV⁺ KS positives	8	25,447	183,307	3.60	243,333
	9	4,779	ND	2.10	144,161
	10	0	0	1.75	87,037
	11	0	20,884	2.10	69,444
	12	1,009	ND	2.85	68,585
	13	0	0	1.28	89,909
	14	0	14,914	2.44	12,090
Mean		4,462 ± 3,567	43,821 ± 35,208	2.3 ± 0.28	102,080 ± 27,934

^{^a}

The flow cytometry percentages were normalized to the isotype controls of each experiment.

^{^b}

ND, not done.