Linhares M I, Eizuru Y, de Andrade G P, Fonseca I B, Carvalho Júnior L B, Moreira I T, Minamishima Y
Laboratorio de Imunopatologia Keizo Asami, Setor de Virologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Microbiol Immunol. 1994;38(6):475-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1994.tb01811.x.
The seroprevalence of human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection was investigated in Brazilians (570): native inhabitants (298) and descendants from Japanese (272) living in Recife and its neighborhoods--North-east of Brazil. Furthermore, polytransfused renal transplanted patients (54) were also examined for the serological status to this virus. The seropositivity to HTLV-1, screened by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), was low: 1.34% for the local population and 0.73% for the descendants from Japanese. However, the seropositivity for the renal transplanted patients was found to be 11.1%. This higher value suggests that this retrovirus infection seems to be of importance in this clinical condition.
在巴西人（570名）中调查了人类T细胞白血病病毒1型（HTLV-1）感染的血清阳性率，这些巴西人包括居住在巴西东北部累西腓及其周边地区的当地居民（298名）和日本后裔（272名）。此外，还对接受多次输血的肾移植患者（54名）进行了该病毒血清学状态的检查。通过酶联免疫吸附测定（ELISA）筛查的HTLV-1血清阳性率较低：当地人群为1.34%，日本后裔为0.73%。然而，肾移植患者的血清阳性率为11.1%。这一较高的值表明，这种逆转录病毒感染在这种临床情况下似乎具有重要意义。
