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Document 0012
DOCN M9550012
TI Sexual transmission of human T-lymphotropic virus type I among female
prostitutes and among patients with sexually transmitted diseases in
Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
DT 9505
AU Nakashima K; Kashiwagi S; Kajiyama W; Hirata M; Hayashi J; Noguchi A;
Urabe K; Minami K; Maeda Y; Department of General Medicine, Kyushu
University Hospital,; Fukuoka, Japan.
SO Am J Epidemiol. 1995 Feb 15;141(4):305-11. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/95142082
AB The authors investigated the prevalence of antibody to human
T-lymphotropic virus type I (anti-HTLV-I) in 409 female prostitutes, 446
patients with an episode of sexually transmitted diseases, and 17,345
control blood donors. All subjects were Japanese and all studies were
done in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, in 1989. The prevalence of anti-HTLV-I
was significantly higher in the prostitutes (5.1%, p < 0.001), in the
male patients (2.8%, p < 0.05), and in the female patients (5.7%, p <
0.05) than in the controls (males 1.4%, females 2.2%). Prevalence of
anti-HTLV-I in the prostitutes increased with the number of years spent
in prostitution, but the increase was not statistically significant.
Among the subjects with sexually transmitted diseases, female
prostitutes with syphilis, male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis,
female patients with syphilis, and female patients with gonorrhea had a
significantly higher prevalence of anti-HTLV-I than did the controls. A
longitudinal study was done on the 168 prostitutes. Two (1.3%) of the
158 initially seronegative subjects seroconverted over the period of 2
years. These data suggest that the risk of male-to-female transmission
of HTLV-I through sexual contact is high among high risk groups in
Japan, and they support the possibility of female-to-male transmission
of HTLV-I.
DE Adolescence Adult Aged Cross-Sectional Studies *Disease
Transmission, Horizontal Female Human HTLV-I Antibodies/BLOOD HTLV-I
Infections/COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION Japan/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Longitudinal Studies Male Middle Age Prevalence *Prostitution
Seroepidemiologic Methods Sex Behavior Sexually Transmitted
Diseases/*COMPLICATIONS JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).