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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-8-8
pubmed:abstractText
We used enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) and Western blotting, with "purified" human T-cell leukemia virus I (HTLV-I), to test for HTLV-I antibodies in 2583 plasma samples from 1053 leukemia/lymphoma patients treated at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, mostly between 1972 and 1984, and in 110 sera samples from normal healthy persons. The results demonstrate that ELISA and Western blot assay have limitations for HTLV-I antibody detection in an adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) nonendemic population. This conclusion is based on the many false reactives obtained by ELISA, and weak and indeterminate reaction (mostly p19 band) on Western blotting. All moderate to strongly HTLV-I ELISA-positive samples tested were negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies. Although 6/27 mycosis fungoides (MF) patients tested gave mostly a weak reaction on HTLV-I ELISA, 3/6 MF patients gave multiple bands (p19, p31, p36, gp46) on Western blotting and three samples from one patient gave the same p31, p36, and gp46 bands. This may suggest involvement of some HTLV-I-related virus in MF. These results also indicate that prevalence of HTLV-I infection in leukemia/lymphoma patients was rare, if it exists at all, since, despite the reactivity of some sera with HTLV-I-suspected antigens, none of the samples satisfy the USPHS criteria for positivity which is based on the detection of antibodies to gag protein p24 and to an env gene product gp46 or gp61/68.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0889-2229
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
617-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Child, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Female, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Gene Products, gag, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-HIV, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-HIV Antibodies, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-HIV Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-HIV Core Protein p24, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-HTLV-I Antibodies, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-HTLV-I Infections, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Leukemia, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Lymphoma, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Male, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Predictive Value of Tests, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Prevalence, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Reagent Kits, Diagnostic, pubmed-meshheading:2113820-Viral Core Proteins
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Examination of HTLV-I ELISA-positive leukemia/lymphoma patients by western blotting gave mostly negative or indeterminate reaction.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't