| prevalence of hepatitis b markers, antibodies to adult t cell leukemia/lymphoma virus and antibodies to human immune deficiency virus in prostitutes in fukuoka, japan. | prevalence of hepatitis b (hb) markers, antibodies to human t cell leukemia virus (htlv-1) and antibodies to human immune deficiency virus 1 (hiv-1) in prostitutes working in fukuoka city were studied. sera were collected from 237 prostitutes during january-september, 1986. among them, 9 (3.8%) were hb virus surface-antigen (hbs ag) positive, of whom, 3 were hbe antigen positive and the remaining 6 were anti-hbe positive. the positive rate of anti-hbs was 34.2%. the incidence of anti-htlv-1 in t ... | 1987 | 2900907 |
| the world health organization classification of malignant lymphoma: incidence and clinical prognosis in htlv-1-endemic area of fukuoka. | new insights into the pathogenesis of lymphoid malignancies have been gained through novel genetic, molecular and immunological techniques. a new classification system for lymphoid malignancies, known as the new world health organization (who) classification, has been proposed recently based on these findings. the relative incidence of the subtypes of malignant lymphoma is known to differ according to geographic location. adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma (atll) is a human malignancy associated wit ... | 2002 | 11940200 |
| [an epidemiological study of hbv and htlv-i among high risk groups in fukuoka city]. | sera from 69 adult prostitutes, 139 juveniles in the reformatory for boys, and 63 juveniles in the reformatory for girls, were collected between 1986 and 1987 in fukuoka city. these samples were tested for the presence of antibody to human t-cell leukemia virus type-i (anti-htlv-i), for hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), and for antibody to hepatitis b core antigen (anti-hbc). the juveniles in the reformatory for girls were surveyed for the incidence of venereal diseases (vd) and for a history ... | 1990 | 2401807 |
| development of a supersensitive polymerase chain reaction method for human t lymphotropic virus type ii (htlv-ii) and detection of htlv-ii proviral dna from blood donors in japan. | a supersensitive polymerase chain reaction procedure was developed to detect human t-lymphotropic virus type ii (htlv-ii) proviral genome. six primer pairs covering the various regions of htlv-ii were compared and selected on the basis of specificity and sensitivity. among them, one primer pair of the pol region of htlv-ii (ii pol) was able to amplify and detect even 0.1 fg of the cloned plasmid htlv-ii dna (seven copies) by regular ethidium bromide staining on polyacrylamide gel. by using this ... | 1992 | 1589961 |
| [estimated prevalence rate of htlv-i uveitis in chikugo]. | to estimate the prevalence rate of human t-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-i) uveitis, an epidemiological survey was carried out in the chikugo district of fukuoka prefecture between 1 september and 31 october 1995. the survey was done by sending questionnaires on uveitis patients to all ophthalmological institutes in the district and measuring the serum antibody to htlv-i. the recovery rate of the survey was 39 of 48 institutes (81.3%). a total of 357 patients with uveitis were reported in ... | 1998 | 9619025 |
| a high prevalence of human t-lymphotropic virus type i carriers in patients with antithyroid antibodies. | human t-lymphotropic virus type i (htlv-i) is a causative retrovirus of adult t-cell leukemia lymphoma and htlv-i associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. htlv-i is also associated with some forms of pulmonary alveolitis, chronic arthropathy, polymyositis, and uveitis. in this study, the possible role of htlv-i infection in the pathogenesis of autoimmune thyroid diseases with positive antithyroid antibody (ata) to microsomal antigen or thyroglobulin was evaluated. in fukuoka prefectur ... | 1994 | 7711504 |
| a seroepidemiological study of hepatitis c virus (hcv) in an area with a high prevalence of chronic liver disease in the kyushu district of japan. | the incidence of hepatitis virus type c (hcv) in an area, futase, of iizuka city in chikuho province in the northeastern part of fukuoka prefecture in kyushu, japan, was estimated by screening sera for anti-hcv antibodies. titers of anti human t-lymphotropic virus type i (htlv-i) antibodies and hepatitis virus type b surface antigens (hbs) were also determined. the area of the present study is known to have a particularly high prevalence of chronic liver diseases, because coal mining was the key ... | 1994 | 7523761 |
| sexual transmission of human t-lymphotropic virus type i among female prostitutes and among patients with sexually transmitted diseases in fukuoka, kyushu, japan. | the authors investigated the prevalence of antibody to human t-lymphotropic virus type i (anti-htlv-i) in 409 female prostitutes, 446 patients with an episode of sexually transmitted diseases, and 17,345 control blood donors. all subjects were japanese and all studies were done in fukuoka, kyushu, japan, in 1989. the prevalence of anti-htlv-i was significantly higher in the prostitutes (5.1%, p < 0.001), in the male patients (2.8%, p < 0.05), and in the female patients (5.7%, p < 0.05) than in t ... | 1995 | 7840108 |
| [blood-borne viral infection in hemodialysis units: special reference to hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus and human t-lymphotropic virus type 1]. | hemodialysis patients are one of the high risk groups for blood-borne viral infection due to their need of blood transfusions for renal anemia. in addition, the hemodialysis procedure itself is a risk factor for blood-borne viral infection. therefore, prevention of blood-borne infection in hemodialysis units is highly important. i would like to introduce our previous studies on hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus and human t-lymphotropic virus type 1 infection in hemodialysis units in fukuoka, ... | 1998 | 9893464 |