We compared an antigen capture assay (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill.) with a reverse transcriptase assay to identify and quantify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in culture. In direct comparisons of serial dilutions of lymphadenopathy-associated virus type 1, the antigen assay was 100-fold more sensitive than the reverse transcriptase assay in detecting the virus. The antigen assay...

human t-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-1) is associated with adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma (atl) and htlv-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp). only a limited percentage of infected individuals develop disease in response to the virus while the majority remain asymptomatic and ham/tsp is the most common clinical manifestation of the virus. ham/tsp is an inflamma...

Simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (STLV-1) strains occasionally infect humans. However, the frequency of such infections is unknown. We show that direct transmission of STLV-1 from nonhuman primates to humans may be responsible for a substantial proportion of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 infections in rural Côte d'Ivoire, where primate hunting is common.

Using a population-based cancer registry, we tabulated 69 definite adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma cases (36 males and 33 females) and 2.20 expected cases (0.95 for males and 1.25 for females) diagnosed from 1981 to 1983 in Saga, Japan. The number of human T-lymphotropic virus type I carriers was computed by applying sex- and age-specific anti-human T-lymphotropic virus type I antibody positive ...

After the addition of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-infected lymphocytes to enterocyte monolayers, the lymphocytes adhered via microvilli from both cell types and shed virus onto the enterocyte surface. Virus fused with the epithelial membrane and infected these cells as confirmed by electron microscopic immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization, and amplification by polymera...

Title Mother-to-child Transmission of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Author(s) Moriuchi, Hiroyuki; Masuzaki, Hideaki; Doi, Hiroshi; Katamine, Shigeru Citation The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 32(2), pp.175-177; 2013 Issue Date 2013-02 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/31485 Right © 2013 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.; This is a non-final version of an article published in fi...