Document 0012
 DOCN  M9550012
 TI    Sexual transmission of human T-lymphotropic virus type I among female
       prostitutes and among patients with sexually transmitted diseases in
       Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
 DT    9505
 AU    Nakashima K; Kashiwagi S; Kajiyama W; Hirata M; Hayashi J; Noguchi A;
       Urabe K; Minami K; Maeda Y; Department of General Medicine, Kyushu
       University Hospital,; Fukuoka, Japan.
 SO    Am J Epidemiol. 1995 Feb 15;141(4):305-11. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95142082
 AB    The authors investigated the prevalence of antibody to human
       T-lymphotropic virus type I (anti-HTLV-I) in 409 female prostitutes, 446
       patients with an episode of sexually transmitted diseases, and 17,345
       control blood donors. All subjects were Japanese and all studies were
       done in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, in 1989. The prevalence of anti-HTLV-I
       was significantly higher in the prostitutes (5.1%, p < 0.001), in the
       male patients (2.8%, p < 0.05), and in the female patients (5.7%, p <
       0.05) than in the controls (males 1.4%, females 2.2%). Prevalence of
       anti-HTLV-I in the prostitutes increased with the number of years spent
       in prostitution, but the increase was not statistically significant.
       Among the subjects with sexually transmitted diseases, female
       prostitutes with syphilis, male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis,
       female patients with syphilis, and female patients with gonorrhea had a
       significantly higher prevalence of anti-HTLV-I than did the controls. A
       longitudinal study was done on the 168 prostitutes. Two (1.3%) of the
       158 initially seronegative subjects seroconverted over the period of 2
       years. These data suggest that the risk of male-to-female transmission
       of HTLV-I through sexual contact is high among high risk groups in
       Japan, and they support the possibility of female-to-male transmission
       of HTLV-I.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Aged  Cross-Sectional Studies  *Disease
       Transmission, Horizontal  Female  Human  HTLV-I Antibodies/BLOOD  HTLV-I
       Infections/COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION  Japan/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       Longitudinal Studies  Male  Middle Age  Prevalence  *Prostitution
       Seroepidemiologic Methods  Sex Behavior  Sexually Transmitted
       Diseases/*COMPLICATIONS  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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