PMID- 7676898
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19951013
LR  - 20151008
IS  - 0029-0203 (Print)
IS  - 0029-0203 (Linking)
VI  - 99
IP  - 8
DP  - 1995 Aug
TI  - [Seroprevalence of HTLV-I in various ocular diseases in central Japan].
PG  - 959-63
AB  - Recently human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) has been shown to be 
      responsible for a kind of uveitis in southwestern Japan, where HTLV-I infection 
      is highly endemic. To investigate further the association of HTLV-I with various 
      ocular diseases, we studied HTLV-I seroprevalence in 1,350 patients in central 
      Japan, where HTLV-I infection is not endemic. Of 1,350 patients with various 
      ocular diseases, 40 (2.96%) were seropositive for the retrovirus. There was no 
      statistically significant difference in HTLV-I seroprevalence among various 
      ocular diseases. Four of 9 (44.4%) seropositive cases from southwestern Japan 
      developed HTLV-I associated uveitis (HAU), whereas only 2 of 26 (7.7%) 
      seropositive cases from central Japan developed HAU. The difference was 
      statistically significant (p < 0.05). This suggests that the incidence of HAU 
      could be influenced by environmental or hereditary factors. On the other hand, 3 
      of 7 (42.9%) patients with episcleritis showed HTLV-I infection.
FAU - Goto, K
AU  - Goto K
AD  - Division of Ophthalmology, Odawara Municipal Hospital, Japan.
FAU - Kurita, M
AU  - Kurita M
FAU - Watanabe, N
AU  - Watanabe N
FAU - Ogi, A
AU  - Ogi A
FAU - Iijima, Y
AU  - Iijima Y
FAU - Hanajiri, M
AU  - Hanajiri M
FAU - Saeki, K
AU  - Saeki K
FAU - Ohno, S
AU  - Ohno S
LA  - jpn
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi
JT  - Nippon Ganka Gakkai zasshi
JID - 7505716
RN  - 0 (HTLV-I Antibodies)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Base Sequence
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Eye Diseases/*epidemiology/*immunology
MH  - Female
MH  - HTLV-I Antibodies/*analysis
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/*epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Japan/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Molecular Sequence Data
MH  - Seroepidemiologic Studies
EDAT- 1995/08/01 00:00
MHDA- 1995/08/01 00:01
CRDT- 1995/08/01 00:00
PHST- 1995/08/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1995/08/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1995/08/01 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi. 1995 Aug;99(8):959-63.