You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing and what you can do to make your experience on this site better.


ABOUT JAMA
Advanced Search

Welcome   | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In


  Vol. 250 No. 8, August 26, 1983 TABLE OF CONTENTS
  JAMA
  •  Online Features
  ARTICLE
 This Article
 •Send to a friend
 • Save in My Folder
 •Save to citation manager
 •Permissions
 Citing Articles
 •Citing articles on HighWire
 •Contact me when this article is cited
 Related Content
 •Similar articles in JAMA

The human T-cell leukemia-lymphoma virus in the southeastern United States

D. W. Blayney, W. A. Blattner, M. Robert-Guroff, E. S. Jaffe, R. I. Fisher, P. A. Bunn Jr, M. G. Patton, H. R. Rarick and R. C. Gallo

The human T-cell leukemia-lymphoma virus (HTLV) is a recently described RNA tumor virus associated with human T-cell malignant neoplasms. In two geographic areas, Japan and the Caribbean basin, clusters of adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma are "sentinel diseases" and have suggested an underlying prevalence of HTLV infection in both family members of the index cases and in the population. Four cases of lymphoma from the United States are described as illustrative of the sentinel disease. Serological studies of families and of a small population sample suggest that HTLV infection is endemic in certain parts of the southeastern United States at rates similar to those seen in Caribbean blacks but at a lower rate than that observed in southwestern Japan.

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Expression of Glucose Transporter 1 Confers Susceptibility to Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Envelope-Mediated Fusion
Coskun and Sutton
J. Virol. 2005;79:4150-4158.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Human T-Lymphocyte Transformation with Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 2
Tarsis et al.
J. Virol. 1998;72:841-846.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  





HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | SUBMIT | SUBSCRIBE | HELP
CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP
 
© 1983 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.