HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA-VIRUS VERTICAL TRAN SMISSION IN AN ENDEMIC AREA- A SEROEPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEY IN RANDOMIZED POPULATION OF CHILDREN AGED 0-5 IN GABON

Authors
BERTEAU F MARTINPREVEL Y BEDJABAGA I
Citation
F. Berteau et al., HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA-VIRUS VERTICAL TRAN SMISSION IN AN ENDEMIC AREA- A SEROEPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEY IN RANDOMIZED POPULATION OF CHILDREN AGED 0-5 IN GABON, Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales, 87(4), 1994, pp. 217-221
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales → ACNP
ISSN journal
00379085
Volume
87
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
217 - 221
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9085(1994)87:4<217:HTLVTS>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
A seroepidemiological survey was conducted in a representative populat ion of children aged 0-5 in Gabon. Breast-feeding appears to an import ant mode of HTLV vertical transmission. Owing to other epidemiological data in population of gabonese adults allow us to think that breast-f eeding related transmission and sexual transmission seem to occur in e qual proportion in the global HTLV transmission in that area of endemi city.