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HTLV-I-associated myelopathy associated with blood transfusion in the United States: epidemiologic and molecular evidence linking donor and recipient
- Source :
- Neurology. 41(2 ( Pt 1))
- Publication Year :
- 1991
-
Abstract
- Six months after receiving 58 units of blood components, a 65-year-old white man from New York City, with no other risk factors for human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection, developed HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/ tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Investigation of blood donors identified a 25-year-old white Hispanic woman from Florida whose platelets had been given to the patient and who was seropositive for the virus on a serum specimen obtained 2 years after the donation. She was born in Cuba and had had 2 sexual relationships with men who either had been born in or had resided in the Caribbean. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) studies of peripheral blood mononuclear cells indicated that both donor and recipient were infected with HTLV-I. Molecular studies of a 595-nucleotide sequence in the 5' envelope region of HTLV-I indicated that the viruses from donor and recipient were identical in each of 32 positions in which published HTLV-I sequences demonstrate molecular heterogeneity; the donor and recipient viruses were also identical in 2 additional positions in which they differed from all published sequences. Transfusion-associated HAM/TSP has occurred in the United States, but additional cases should be prevented by screening blood donations for HTLV-I. Molecular studies of HTLV-I may prove useful in defining the genetic heterogeneity of HTLV-I isolates in the United States and in studying transmission of this virus.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Blood transfusion
Genes, Viral
viruses
medicine.medical_treatment
Blood Donors
Antibodies, Viral
Peripheral blood mononuclear cell
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Virus
law.invention
Myelopathy
immune system diseases
law
Tropical spastic paraparesis
medicine
Humans
Cloning, Molecular
Polymerase chain reaction
Aged
Probability
Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
Base Sequence
business.industry
Genetic heterogeneity
virus diseases
Transfusion Reaction
medicine.disease
Virology
Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic
United States
Surgery
Htlv i associated myelopathy
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
Epidemiologic Methods
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00283878
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 2 ( Pt 1)
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bd46cece7f7c1ddd5b45a4e70225e2ab