Isolation and transmission of human retrovirus (human t-cell leukemia virus)

Science. 1983 Feb 18;219(4586):856-9. doi: 10.1126/science.6600519.

Abstract

Nine new isolates of human T-cell leukemia-lymphoma virus (HTLV) were obtained from cells of seven patients with malignancies of mature T cells and from two clinically normal relatives of a T-cell leukemia patient. These people were from the United States, Israel, the West Indies, and Japan. The virus was detected in the fresh T cells and was isolated from the established T-cell lines. Each isolate is closely related to the first HTLV isolate, and all the new HTLV isolates were transmitted into normal human T cells obtained from the umbilical cord blood of newborns.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cell Line
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leukemia / microbiology*
  • Male
  • Retroviridae / growth & development
  • Retroviridae / isolation & purification*
  • T-Lymphocytes / microbiology*