title: Infection with HTLV-III/LAV and transfusion-associated acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Serologic evidence of an association.
abstract: We studied patients with transfusion-associated acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and their blood donors for serologic evidence of infection with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus with two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and a Western blot assay. All 19 patients with AIDS were seropositive by at least one test. In all 28 donor sets containing "high-risk" donors, at least one donor was seropositive by one or more tests. Of 255 donors not considered high risk, two (0.8%) were seropositive by all three tests. When 30 seropositive high-risk donors were evaluated a median of 29 months after donation, four (13%) had developed AIDS and eight (27%) had lymphadenopathy. Our findings support the hypothesis that human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus causes AIDS and indicate that seropositive high-risk donors may be at relatively high risk for developing AIDS or related conditions themselves.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Sarngadharan
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: DeVico
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bruch
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Getchell
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Kalyanaraman
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Haverkos
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Stoneburner
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Curran
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D001782:Blood Donors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003101:Collodion; D017977:Deltaretrovirus / Q000276:immunology*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk; D012698:Serologic Tests; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D003101:Collodion