Decline in the positive rate of human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) antibodies among blood donors in Nagasaki

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 14-17

  Chiyoda, Shin ^a,b   Kinoshita, Katsumi ^a   Egawa, Satoko ^a   Inoue, Junko ^a   Watanabe, Katsutoshi ^a   Ifuku, Masumi ^a  

^a Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Red Cross Blood Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult t cell leukemia; Breast feeding

Indexed keywords

HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; BLOOD DONORS; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HTLV-I ANTIBODIES; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, ACUTE, HTLV-I-ASSOCIATED; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0035218627     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.14     Document Type: Article

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