PMID- 8434571
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19930318
LR  - 20190512
IS  - 0002-9262 (Print)
IS  - 0002-9262 (Linking)
VI  - 137
IP  - 1
DP  - 1993 Jan 1
TI  - Prevalence of antibody to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I in Okinawa, 
      Japan, after an interval of 9 years.
PG  - 43-8
AB  - To clarify events related to age dependence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus 
      type I (HTLV-I) seroprevalence, the authors carried out two seroepidemiologic 
      studies at a 9-year interval on residents of Yonaguni Island, Okinawa, Japan. The 
      overall prevalence was 17.8% (345/1,943) in 1980 and 17.1% (264/1,543) in 
      1989-1990. The authors studied the relation of the HTLV-I infection rate to the 
      birth year of 967 individuals tested in both years. Of the 967 individuals, 209 
      were positive for anti-HTLV-I in the 1980 survey. By the 1989-1990 survey, only 7 
      of the 758 anti-HTLV-I negative cases (0.9%) had become positive for anti-HTLV-I, 
      and all 7 were over 40 years of age. For persons born in the same period, there 
      was almost no difference between the prevalence of HTLV-I found in the 1980 
      survey and that found in the 1989-1990 survey. These data show that there were 
      few new cases of HTLV-I infection and none in the lower age groups over the 9 
      years, which suggests that higher rates of HTLV-I infection in adults reflect 
      past higher rates of infection as infants.
FAU - Morofuji-Hirata, M
AU  - Morofuji-Hirata M
AD  - Department of General Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
FAU - Kajiyama, W
AU  - Kajiyama W
FAU - Nakashima, K
AU  - Nakashima K
FAU - Noguchi, A
AU  - Noguchi A
FAU - Hayashi, J
AU  - Hayashi J
FAU - Kashiwagi, S
AU  - Kashiwagi S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Epidemiol
JT  - American journal of epidemiology
JID - 7910653
RN  - 0 (HTLV-I Antibodies)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
MH  - Female
MH  - HTLV-I Antibodies/*blood
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/*epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Japan/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Seroepidemiologic Studies
MH  - Sex Factors
EDAT- 1993/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1993/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1993/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1993/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1993/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1993/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116600 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Epidemiol. 1993 Jan 1;137(1):43-8. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116600.