[Human acute lymphoblastic leukemia associated with HTLV-I virus and its infection in healthy populations from various regions of the USSR].
Patients with various forms of hemoblastoses (328) and clinically healthy persons (530) were examined for antibodies to HTLV-I. The presence of antibodies was detected in 3 out of 40 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and only in 1 of 70 patients with lymphosarcoma. These data indicate that sporadic cases of T-cell leukemia associated with HTLV-I were detected in the USSR. Out of 530 healthy persons only 4 contained antibodies to HTLV-I antigens.
D000328:Adult; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006800:Deltaretrovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014586:USSR
Ostryĭ limfoblastnyĭ leĭkoz cheloveka, assotsiirovannyĭ s virusom HTLV-I, i infitsirovannost' im zdorovogo naseleniia nekotorykh regionov SSSR.