Stepina V N, Gurtsevich V E, Morozova L F, Etkin A F, Urazova L N
Eksp Onkol. 1987;9(3):32-3.
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.