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Table 1 Herpes virus seroprevalence, N = 535

From: Herpes virus seroepidemiology in the adult Swedish population

Virus IgG antibodies

Npositive/Ntotal

%

95% confidence interval

Herpes simplex type 1

425/535

79.4

76.0 – 82.9

Herpes simplex type 2

69a/535

12.9

10.1 – 15.8

Varicella zoster virus

524/535

97.9

96.7 – 99.1

Cytomegalovirus

445/535

83.2

80.0 – 86.4

Human herpes virus type 6

517/530b

97.5

96.2 – 98.9

  1. Note: aAmong the 69 HSV2 positive, 50 were HSV1 positive and 16 were HSV1 negative
  2. bFive samples were unavailable for HHV-6 analysis