Titre :
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Low seroprevalence of HTLV-I and HTLV-II in patients with a sexually transmitted disease. (1999)
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Auteurs :
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B. SULIGOI ;
S. CIUTA ;
R. DECKER ;
C. GALLI ;
Istituto Superiore di Sanità. National Aids Center. Rome. ITA ;
Study Group for Htlv and Stds. INC
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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European journal of epidemiology (vol. 15, n° 3, 1999)
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Pagination :
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225-229
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Maladie sexuellement transmissible
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Homme
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Association
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Rétrovirus
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Virus
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Italie
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Europe
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Epidémiologie
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Prévalence
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST WdaR0x1W. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. To determine the prevalence of HTLV I-II among highly sexually active adults, a seroprevalence study was conducted in Italy between March 1992 and March 1993 among 1506 patients with a newly diagnosed STD. Individuals were tested with an enzyme immunoassay that employs a double viral lysate from HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected cell lines ; confirmation and discrimination between HTLV-I and II were performed by a dot-blot immunoassay. One patient (0.07%) was confirmed HTLV-I positive and one (0.07%) HTLV-II positive. The HTLV-I positive was a Romanian woman, and the other was an intravenous drug user. The 0.13% HTLV prevalence observed in this study is intermediate between the 0.034% found among Italian blood donors and the 3.5-6% found among Italian intravenous drug users. These data suggest that there is not a high prevalence of these viruses among Italians with STDs.
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