| a study of htlv-i and its associated risk factors in trinidad and tobago. | seroprevalence of human t-lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-i) among a sample of persons selected from a government register of businesses in trinidad was 3.2% in 1,025 persons of african descent compared to 0.2% among 487 persons of asian descent and 0% among 46 persons of european-descent. in tobago, from a coastal village, among persons of african ancestry ascertained as part of a cardiovascular survey, the rate was 11.4%, which was significantly higher when corrected for age and race than the ... | 1990 | 2213511 |
| racial and other characteristics of human t cell leukemia/lymphoma (htlv-i) and aids (htlv-iii) in trinidad. | adult t cell leukaemia/lymphoma was first recognised as a clinical entity in southwest japan. subsequently the caribbean has been found to be another area where the disease is endemic, and sporadic cases have been identified in different parts of the world. the human t cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus (htlv-i) is causally related to adult t cell leukaemia/lymphoma. a subgroup of htlv, designated htlv-iii, has recently been isolated from many patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aid ... | 1985 | 2985171 |
| effect of human t-lymphotropic virus type i infection on non-hodgkin's lymphoma incidence. | we previously reported from a case-control analysis that t-cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl) was strongly associated with human t-lymphotropic virus type i (htlv-i) infection in jamaica and trinidad and that the relative risk for htlv-i infection was very high in younger patients. | 1995 | 7629870 |