title: [Vertical transmission of the human T-cell leukemia virus in an endemic area. An epidemiological study in children from 0 to 5 years in Gabon].
abstract: A seroepidemiological survey was conducted in a representative population of children aged 0-5 in Gabon. Breast-feeding appears to an important mode of HTLV vertical transmission. Owing to other epidemiological data in population of gabonese adults allow us to think that breast-feeding related transmission and sexual transmission seem to occur in equal proportion in the global HTLV transmission in that area of endemicity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Rétrovirologie, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de France ville (CIRMF), Gabon.
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Berteau
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Martin-Prével
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bedjabaga
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015480:Deltaretrovirus Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D006800:Deltaretrovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000635:transmission*; D005260:Female; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D008297:Male; D008895:Milk, Human
chemical_list: D015480:Deltaretrovirus Antibodies; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies
vernacular_title: Etude de la transmission verticale du human T-cell leukemia virus en zone d'endémie. A travers une enquête épidémiologique chez les enfants de 0 à 5 ans au Gabon.