title: Epidemiology of anti-human T-cell leukemia virus type I antibody and characteristics of adult T-cell leukemia in China.
abstract: We analyzed the data from seroepidemiologic survey of anti-HTLV-I serum antibody (HTLV-1 Ab) and 16 adult cases of T-cell leukemia (ATL) in China (1984-1994). The results showed that the positive rate of HTLV-I Ab of the population of China was 0.54%, the birth or residence places of HTLV-I carriers and all the patients with ATL were mainly distributed in the coastal provinces and the northeast China, and a small endemic area of HTLV-I and ATl was found in Fujian Province (HTLV-I Ab positive rate, 2.1%). The HTLV-I in China may be transmitted from Japan or originated from China. The clinical characteristics of the cases included onset in adulthood; frequent skin lesions, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly; no mediastinal mass; the ATL cells from peripheral blood with polymorphism nuclei and mature T cell immunophenotype HTLV-IAb positive in most of the cases tested (5/8); mostly acute type; with a median survival period of 3.5 months.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hematology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhuo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D015490:HTLV-I Infections; D015368:Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015458:Leukemia, T-Cell / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
chemical_list: D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies