Fig. 6

Variation in oral shedding rate of HHV-8 by participant across multiple shedding sessions. All cohort participants with 2–5 sessions within two years were included in the analysis of shedding variation over time, representing 39 participants with 112 total sessions. Four persons had shedding rates increase by at least 30 % on an absolute scale over time (red), 7 persons had rates decrease by the same amount (blue), and 28 had no consistent pattern (black)