PMID- 2345292
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19900702
LR  - 20190510
IS  - 0022-1899 (Print)
IS  - 0022-1899 (Linking)
VI  - 161
IP  - 6
DP  - 1990 Jun
TI  - Human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) among female prostitutes in 
      Kinshasa, Zaire.
PG  - 1073-7
AB  - Three hundred seventy-seven prostitutes from Kinshasa, Zaire, were enrolled in a 
      study to determine associated risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus type 
      1 (HIV-1) and human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection. Twelve 
      samples (3.2%) were seropositive for HTLV-I; results for HIV-1 (101 [26.8%]) are 
      reported elsewhere. HTLV-I prevalence increased with age, and seven of the 
      seropositive women originated from the Equateur region, a remote area in 
      northwestern Zaire. The prevalence among women from Equateur (7.2%) was higher 
      than that of women from all other regions (1.8%, P = .02). Presence of HTLV-I 
      antibodies was not associated with frequency or type of sex practice. In a 
      subsequent study, 350 serum samples were obtained from a variety of subjects in 
      the Equateur region in 1986. Nineteen (5.4%) showed antibodies to HTLV-I. These 
      data and a recent report of a cluster of patients with tropical spastic 
      paraparesis from this region suggest that HTLV-I is endemic in the Equateur 
      region of Zaire.
FAU - Wiktor, S Z
AU  - Wiktor SZ
AD  - Viral Epidemiology Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.
FAU - Piot, P
AU  - Piot P
FAU - Mann, J M
AU  - Mann JM
FAU - Nzilambi, N
AU  - Nzilambi N
FAU - Francis, H
AU  - Francis H
FAU - Vercauteren, G
AU  - Vercauteren G
FAU - Blattner, W A
AU  - Blattner WA
FAU - Quinn, T C
AU  - Quinn TC
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Infect Dis
JT  - The Journal of infectious diseases
JID - 0413675
RN  - 0 (HTLV-I Antibodies)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Blotting, Western
MH  - Democratic Republic of the Congo/epidemiology
MH  - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
MH  - Female
MH  - HIV Seropositivity/epidemiology
MH  - HIV-1/immunology
MH  - HTLV-I Antibodies/analysis
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/*epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - *Sex Work
MH  - Sexual Partners
EDAT- 1990/06/01 00:00
MHDA- 1990/06/01 00:01
CRDT- 1990/06/01 00:00
PHST- 1990/06/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1990/06/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1990/06/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1093/infdis/161.6.1073 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Infect Dis. 1990 Jun;161(6):1073-7. doi: 10.1093/infdis/161.6.1073.