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Toshiro Hara, MD; Yasunobu Takahashi, MD; Shunro Sonoda, MD; Koichi Kusuhara, MD; Kohji Ueda, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1987;141(7):764-765.

Abstract
• One hundred twenty-eight serum samples, collected from infants transfused at the neonatal care unit of Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan, were tested for the presence of antibody to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) by the enzyme-linked Immunosorbent assay and the indirect immunofluorescence test. Three of 128 were positive for anti–HTLV-I antibody. The three seropositive patients had received 62, 82, and 1160 mL of transfused blood. These patients did not receive any transfusion thereafter. In addition, no anti–HTLV-I antibodies were detected in the sera of their mothers and siblings. These data suggested that HTLV-I infection Is one of the transfusion-associated complications in neonates.

(AJDC 1987;141:764-765)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Drs Hara, Takahashi, and Ueda); and the Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima (Japan) University (Drs Sonoda and Kusuhara).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 26, 1987.

Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka, 812 Japan (Dr Hara).

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