Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS) HTLV Cohort (HTLV)

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Accession Number
HLB00630808a

Study Type
Epidemiology Study

Collection Type
Open BioLINCC Study See bottom of this webpage for request information

Study Period
1989-2007

NHLBI Division
DBDR

Dataset(s) Last Updated
January 3, 2018

Consent

Commercial Use Data Restrictions No

Data Restrictions Based On Area Of Research No

Objectives

To conduct a longitudinal, multicenter epidemiologic study of the human retroviruses HIV-1, HIV-2, HTLV-I, and HTLV-II in volunteer blood donors from areas of the United States that were reportedly at high and medium or low risk for HIV.

Background

Previous evidence suggested that human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) infection is associated with an increased incidence of bacterial infections.

Participants

The study includes 154 HTLV-I infected, 387 HTLV-II infected and 799 uninfected blood donors, all of whom were HIV type 1 seronegative at enrollment. Of the 1340 present and former blood donors examined at enrollment, 1213 (90.5%) were re-examined after approximately 2 years, including 136 HTLV-I and 337 HTLV-II seropositive subjects and 740 demographically stratified HTLV-seronegative subjects.

Conclusions

The data support an increased incidence of infectious diseases among otherwise healthy HTLV-II and HTLV-I infected subjects. They are also consistent with the lymphoproliferative effects of HTLV-I, and with neuropathic effects of HTLV-I and HTLV-II. (Arch Intern Med. 1999;159:1485-1491)

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