| modes of transmission and evidence for viral latency from studies of human t-cell lymphotrophic virus type i in japanese migrant populations in hawaii. | human t-cell lymphotrophic virus type i (htlv-i) seroprevalence was 20% among hawaiian japanese migrants (issei) and their offspring (nisei) from okinawa compared to 35% in similarly aged men who were lifetime residents of okinawa. a control group of migrants from a nonendemic area of japan, niigata, had low rates of htlv-i antibodies, suggesting that hawaii per se is not an endemic area for htlv-i. factors that were significantly associated with seropositivity in the okinawa migrant groups were ... | 1986 | 3014518 |