PMID- 9159404
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970725
LR  - 20190822
IS  - 0385-5600 (Print)
IS  - 0385-5600 (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 4
DP  - 1997
TI  - Breast milk is not a significant source for early Epstein-Barr virus or human 
      herpesvirus 6 infection in infants: a seroepidemiologic study in 2 endemic areas 
      of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I in Japan.
PG  - 309-12
AB  - In order to evaluate the possibility of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human 
      herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) transmission via breast milk, a total of 331 serum 
      specimens collected from bottle-fed and breast-fed children and their mothers, in 
      2 endemic areas of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in Japan, were 
      assayed for antibodies to EBV and HHV-6. The seroprevalences of EBV and HHV-6 
      were over 95% both in the mothers of bottle-fed children and in those of 
      breast-fed children. The seroprevalence of EBV at 12-23 months of age was 54.5% 
      (36/66) and 55.8% (24/43) in breast-fed children and bottle-fed children, 
      respectively. The seroprevalence of HHV-6 at 12-23 months of age was 90.9% 
      (60/66) and 93.0% (40/43) in breast-fed children and bottle-fed children, 
      respectively. No difference was observed between the seroprevalences of EBV and 
      HHV-6 in breast-fed and bottle-fed children at 12-23 months of age. Our 
      seroepidemiologic data indicate that breast milk is not a significant source of 
      early EBV or HHV-6 infection in infancy.
FAU - Kusuhara, K
AU  - Kusuhara K
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, 
      Fukuoka, Japan.
FAU - Takabayashi, A
AU  - Takabayashi A
FAU - Ueda, K
AU  - Ueda K
FAU - Hidaka, Y
AU  - Hidaka Y
FAU - Minamishima, I
AU  - Minamishima I
FAU - Take, H
AU  - Take H
FAU - Fujioka, K
AU  - Fujioka K
FAU - Imai, S
AU  - Imai S
FAU - Osato, T
AU  - Osato T
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Australia
TA  - Microbiol Immunol
JT  - Microbiology and immunology
JID - 7703966
RN  - 0 (Antibodies, Viral)
SB  - IM
MH  - Antibodies, Viral/analysis
MH  - Female
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/epidemiology
MH  - Herpesviridae Infections/*epidemiology/*transmission
MH  - *Herpesvirus 4, Human
MH  - *Herpesvirus 6, Human
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
MH  - Japan/epidemiology
MH  - Milk, Human/*virology
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Seroepidemiologic Studies
MH  - Tumor Virus Infections/*epidemiology/*transmission
EDAT- 1997/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1997/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1997/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01206.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Microbiol Immunol. 1997;41(4):309-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01206.x.