Document 0568
 DOCN  M9590568
 TI    Prevalence of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-I) in general
       inhabitants in non-adult T-cell leukemia (ATL)-endemic Hokkaido, Japan.
 DT    9509
 AU    Kwon KW; Yano M; Sekiguchi S; Iwanaga M; Fujiwara S; Oikawa O; Sugiura
       M; Imai S; Osato T; Department of Research, Hokkaido Red Cross Blood
       Center, Sapporo,; Japan.
 SO    In Vivo. 1994 Nov-Dec;8(6):1011-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95290634
 AB    In contrast to adult T-cell leukemia (ATL)-endemic southwestern Japan,
       the northernmost island Hokkaido has a small number of ATL patients
       annually. In this study, we surveyed 32,587 healthy inhabitants
       throughout Hokkaido for antibodies to human T-cell leukemia virus type 1
       (HTLV-I). Only 244 individuals (0.8%) were seropositive as HTLV-I
       carriers; 0.6% (123 of 19,512) in males and 0.9% (121 of 13,075) in
       females. In some areas, however, the inhabitants had relatively high
       seropositivity (> 2%). The highest rate was 5.2% with a cluster of ATL
       patients in a certain town of the Hidaka area near the Pacific Ocean, in
       southeast Hokkaido.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Age Factors  Aged  Aged, 80 and over  Cell Line
       Child  Child, Preschool  Female  Human  HTLV-I/IMMUNOLOGY/ISOLATION &
       PURIF  HTLV-I Antibodies/ANALYSIS  HTLV-I
       Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/VIROLOGY  Infant  Infant, Newborn
       Japan/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Leukemia, T-Cell/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/VIROLOGY  Male
       Middle Age  Prevalence  Seroepidemiologic Methods  Sex Factors  Support,
       Non-U.S. Gov't  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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