title: [Screening of antibodies to human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) in sera of blood donors and comparison of different methods].
abstract: Nine hundred and sixty five serum samples of blood donors from the blood bank of Veterans General Hospital Taipei were screened for antibodies to human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) by different methods. Adult T-cell Leukemia cell lines MT-1, MT-2, KH-2 and MT-2 stimulated by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) were used as target cells in immunofluorescence microscopy (IF) examination with positive rates as 0.20% (2/965), 0.62% (6/965), 0.20% (2/965) and 0.51 (5/965) respectively. In addition to these, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) gave a 2.59% (25/965) positive rate and particle agglutination (PA) test revealed a positive rate of 0.93% (9/965). The samples positive in IF were also positive in PA and those positive in PA were found positive in ELISA without exceptions. The 25 ELISA positive samples as well as 75 samples randomly chosen from the ELISA negative ones received Western blot (WB) analysis as a confirmation test. Only 3 of these 100 were considered positive in WB, giving a final positive rate of 0.31%, (3/965), and all of them were originally positive in both PA and ELISA. Particle agglutination test as the screening test and Western blot analysis as the confirming one were suggested to be a routine procedure for detecting anti-HTLV-I antibodies in blood banks through detailed comparison and discussion.
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tzeng
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Hsieh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000372:Agglutination Tests; D001782:Blood Donors; D015153:Blotting, Western; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies