title: Adult T-cell leukemia by probable horizontal transmission from husband to wife.
abstract: A 60-year-old housewife was affected with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) 10 years after her husband died of T-cell lymphoma, which was retrospectively diagnosed as ATL. She had never had a blood transfusion nor any indication of infection by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) from her parents. The report suggested the wife to have developed ATL by horizontal transmission of HTLV-I from her husband 31 years after their marriage.
mesh_terms: D006800:Deltaretrovirus Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000635:transmission*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors