Abstract Testing of 1785 HIV-1-seronegative blood donors from Conakry yielded 42 samples
that were repeatedly positive in an HTLV-I/II ELISA. Western blotting showed that 22 (1.2%) …

The authors tested over 4000 sera from healthy subjects and patients in sub-Saharan Africa
for antibody to HTLV-I and HTLV-III. Positivity rates of 28% and 17% were obtained by …

Between 1987 and 1988, a survey to determine the distribution of HTLV-I infection was
conducted in a representative population of adults, living in southern Chad, Cameroon, and …

Sera from transplant recipients, hospital staff and other patients as well as baboons and
vervets from national parks in South Africa, and from adults in Namibia and Kenya were all …

HTLV infection was detected (by ELISA and Western blot) in 66 (6.7%) and HIV-2 infection in
193 (19.6%) of 987 hospital patients. HIV-1 infection was detected in only one patient. HTLV …

Serum samples from 557 individuals participating in studies from four separate lowland and
highland populations in Papua New Guinea exhibited consistently false-positive results for …

Editor: Studies performed in South and Central America showed thatHTLV-is endemic in
indigenous Indian popu¬ lations, suggesting that the origin of this virus is the New World.'In …

HumanT LYMPHOTROPIC virus type I (HTLV-I) is endemic in southwestern Japan, the
Seychelles Islands, the Caribbean basin, Brazil, and sub-Saharan Africa.'HTLV-II has been …

Fifty of 75 serum samples collected in the West Nile district of Uganda between August 1972
and July 1973 contained antibodies reactive with human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic) …

PIP: Sera from 1029 subjects from Alexandria, Egypt were tested for antibodies to HTLV-1
and HIV-1 by ELISA and confirmatory immunoprecipitation assay. The sera were from 866 …