作者
Houshang Rafatpanah, Mohammad Reza Hedayati-Moghaddam, Farhad Fathimoghadam, Hamid Reza Bidkhori, Seyed Khosro Shamsian, Sanaz Ahmadi, Leila Sohgandi, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Seyed Abdolrahim Rezaee, Reza Farid, Ali Bazarbachi
发表日期
2011/11/1
期刊
Journal of Clinical Virology
卷号
52
期号
3
页码范围
172-176
出版商
Elsevier
简介
BACKGROUND
Mashhad, in the northeast of Iran has been suggested as an endemic area for human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection since 1996.
OBJECTIVES
We performed a community-based seroepidemiology study to examine the prevalence and risk factors for HTLV-I infection in the city of Mashhad.
STUDY DESIGN
Between May and September 2009, overall 1678 subjects from all the 12 geographical area of Mashhad were selected randomly by multistage cluster sampling for HTLV antibody. The study population included 763 males and 915 females, with the mean age of 29.1±18.5 years. 1654 serum samples were assessed for HTLV antibody using ELISA and reactive samples were confirmed by Western blot and PCR.
RESULTS
The overall prevalence of HTLV-I infection in whole population was 2.12% (95% CI, 1.48–2.93) with no significant difference between males and females (p=0 …
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