PMID- 7697449
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19950501
LR  - 20191023
IS  - 1077-9450 (Print)
IS  - 1077-9450 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 5
DP  - 1995 Apr 15
TI  - HTLV-I infection among prostitutes and pregnant women in Kinshasa, Zaire: how 
      important is high-risk sexual behavior?
PG  - 511-5
AB  - High-risk sexual behavior as risk factor for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 
      I (HTLV-I) infection was assessed in cross-sectional studies with 1,183 
      prostitutes and 1,166 pregnant women in Kinshasa, Zaire. Eighty six (7.3%) 
      prostitutes were positive for HTLV-I. The seroprevalence among prostitutes from 
      the regions along the equator was 12.7%, whereas among prostitutes from the other 
      regions it ranged between 0 and 4.3%. In the prostitutes from the high-prevalence 
      regions, but not in the prostitutes from the low-prevalence regions, HTLV-I 
      infection was associated with increasing age [odds ratio (OR) = 1.1 per year 
      increment], active syphilis (OR = 2.3), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 
      infection (OR = 2.0). Forty three (3.7%) pregnant women were HTLV-I seropositive. 
      Among the women from low-prevalence regions, there was no significant difference 
      in HTLV-I seroprevalence between prostitutes (4.3%) and pregnant women (3.5%). In 
      a group of 409 prostitutes who were observed for a mean duration of 23 months, 
      the incidence of HTLV-I infection was 0.7 per 100 women-years, whereas the 
      incidence of HIV infection was 9.8 per 100 women-years. We conclude that in 
      Kinshasa prostitution per se was not associated with an increased risk of HTLV-I 
      infection.
FAU - Delaporte, E
AU  - Delaporte E
AD  - Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
FAU - Buve, A
AU  - Buve A
FAU - Nzila, N
AU  - Nzila N
FAU - Goeman, J
AU  - Goeman J
FAU - Dazza, M C
AU  - Dazza MC
FAU - Henzel, D
AU  - Henzel D
FAU - Heyward, W
AU  - Heyward W
FAU - St-Louis, M
AU  - St-Louis M
FAU - Piot, P
AU  - Piot P
FAU - Laga, M
AU  - Laga M
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol
JT  - Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : 
      official publication of the International Retrovirology Association
JID - 9501482
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Democratic Republic of the Congo/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - HIV Infections/complications
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/complications/*epidemiology/transmission
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Pregnancy Complications/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Regression Analysis
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - *Sex Work
MH  - *Sexual Behavior
MH  - Sexually Transmitted Diseases/*epidemiology/transmission
MH  - Syphilis/complications
EDAT- 1995/04/15 00:00
MHDA- 1995/04/15 00:01
CRDT- 1995/04/15 00:00
PHST- 1995/04/15 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1995/04/15 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1995/04/15 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1097/00042560-199504120-00012 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1995 Apr 15;8(5):511-5. doi: 
      10.1097/00042560-199504120-00012.