Seroepidemiological Study on Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma in Papua New Guinea

众所周知，成人T细胞白血病/淋巴瘤（ATL）与一种病毒的感染有关，并且在病毒流行地区（日本西南部）观察到。抗ATL病毒相关抗原抗体已在大多数患者所在地区和相当高比例的健康人群中检出。流行病学研究表明，该病毒主要通过输血、母亲传给子女和丈夫传给妻子三种途径传播，结果表明，在巴布亚新几内亚1,254例成人T细胞白血病/淋巴瘤患者中，有251例血清中有病毒相关抗体，平均占20.0%。

It is well known that Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma(ATL) is related to the infection of a kind of viruses and is observed in virus endemic areas(Southwestern Japan). Anti-ATL virus-assosiated antigen antibodies have been detected in the area of most patients and a reratevely high persentage of healthy individualas living in these areas. It is supposeed by epidemiological studies that the virus in transmitted by three main routes such as a blood transfusion, a mother to her children and a husband to his wife.The resultes was indicated Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma virus related-Antibodies were 251 out of 1,254 cases, or 20.0 % on average in Papua New Guinean sera.