A case-control study of risk factors associated with human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type-I seropositivity in blood donors from Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 61-66

  Rouet, Franco̧is ^a,b   Herrmann Storck, C ^a   Courouble, G ^a   Deloumeaux, J ^a   Madani, D ^a   Strobel, M ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TREICHVILLE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Blood donors; French West Indies; HTLV I; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHLAMYDIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; WEST INDIES;

EID: 0036480803     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0042-9007.2001.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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