title: [Screening of sera from the adult populations of some USSR regions for antibodies to the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)].
abstract: The results of serologic survey of 4118 residents of the USSR Far East from 16 to 82 years of age and 1037 blood donors for antibody to HTLV-I by the method of passive agglutination of gelatin particles coated with viral proteins are summarized. The portion of HTLV-1 seropositive subjects in the Khabarovsk Territory was 1.79% (25 out of 1391), in the Maritime Territory 2.2% (18 out of 801), in the Sakhalin Island 1.6% (26 out of 1557), and in Kamchatka 1.6% (6 out of 369). A discrete area of a higher number of positive cases was found among Nivkhi national group in the village of Nogliki in the Sakhalin Island: 6.4% (10 out of 155). In women, antibody to HTLV-1 was found twice as frequently as in men. Seropositives to HTLV-1 among blood donors in Moscow, the town of Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, and the town of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk comprised 1.4%, 1.6%, and 5.45%, respectively. The occurrence of HTLV-1 infection among the normal population of the Far East and especially among blood donors attests to the expedience of wider seroepidemiological surveys of the population and especially donors for HTLV-I infection in other regions of the USSR as well.
authors: N B
authors: NB
authors: Seniuta
authors: L S
authors: LS
authors: Iakovleva
authors: V N
authors: VN
authors: Stepina
authors: L N
authors: LN
authors: Buachidze
authors: E P
authors: EP
authors: Gurova
authors: Z A
authors: ZA
authors: Kologrivova
authors: V M
authors: VM
authors: Kindiakov
authors: V E
authors: VE
authors: Gurtsevich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000372:Agglutination Tests; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D001782:Blood Donors; D005260:Female; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D015490:HTLV-I Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology
chemical_list: D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies
vernacular_title: Skrining syvorotok vzroslogo naseleniia nekotorykh regionov SSSR na antitela k virusu T-kletochnogo leĭkoza cheloveka I tipa (HTLV-I).