KRT88P and syphilis: In the univariate analysis, described in Table 2, we were able to find correlations of HHV-8 infection with male gender (27.5% male HHV-8+ vs. 9.5% female HHV-8+, p = 0.05), MSM practice (28.7% MSM HHV-8+ vs. 10.8% heterosexuals HHV-8+, p = 0.023), previous hepatitis B (anti-hepatitis B core antibody) (19.7% anti-HBc-/HHV-8+ vs. 36.3% anti HBc+/HHV-8+, p = 0.009), syphilis infection (MHA-Tp and FTA-ABS) (23.5% syphilis-/HHV-8+ vs. 40% syphilis+/HHV-8+, p = 0.034), and black ethnicity (52.9% black/HHV-8+ vs. 29.5% mixed/HHV-8+ vs. 19.4% white/HHV-8+, p = 0.021).