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The etiology of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) remains unknown, with potential infectious causes having been explored. This contribution evaluates the evidence suggesting an infectious etiology and pathogenesis of the disease, characterizes the relationships between various specific pathogens and CTCL, and discusses some of the difficulties in establishing a causal link between infectious agents and CTCL carcinogenesis. Researchers have evaluated CTCL specimens for evidence of infection with a variety of agents, including human T-lymphotropic virus, Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus-8, and Staphylococcus aureus, although other pathogens also have been detected in CTCL. Although there is significant evidence implicating one or more infectious agents in CTCL, studies to date have not linked definitively any pathogen to disease development, and various studies have yielded conflicting results.
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No evidence for viral sequences in mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome skin lesions: a high-throughput sequencing approach. J Invest Dermatol 2012; 133:853-855. [PMID: 23096719 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2012.371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although cancer can on occasion be caused by infectious agents such as specific bacteria, parasites, and viruses, it is not generally considered a transmissible disease. In rare circumstances, however, direct communication from one host to another has been documented. The Tasmanian devil is now threatened with extinction in the wild because of a fatal transmissible cancer, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). Another example is canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT or Sticker's sarcoma) in dogs. There is a vast difference in prognosis between these two conditions. DFTD is often fatal within 6 months, whereas most cases of CTVT are eventually rejected by the host dog, who then is conferred lifelong immunity. In man, only scattered case reports exist about such communicable cancers, most often in the setting of organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplants and cancers arising during pregnancy that are transmitted to the fetus. In about one third of cases, transplant recipients develop cancers from donor organs from individuals who were found to harbor malignancies after the transplantation. The fact that two thirds of the time cancer does not develop, along with the fact that cancer very rarely is transmitted from person to person, supports the notion that natural immunity prevents such cancers from taking hold in man. These observations might hold invaluable clues to the immunobiology and possible immunotherapy of cancer.
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- James S Welsh
- Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130, USA.
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Mirvish ED, Pomerantz RG, Geskin LJ. Infectious agents in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 2010; 64:423-31. [PMID: 20692726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.11.692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2009] [Revised: 11/18/2009] [Accepted: 11/29/2009] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Infectious agents have long been suspected as potential causative agents in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). Tissues of patients with CTCL have been evaluated for evidence of infection with a number of agents, including Staphylococcus aureus, retroviruses, and herpesviruses. These studies have failed to reveal a consistent association of CTCL with investigated agents. However, there is substantial evidence suggesting a potential role of a yet unidentified virus in CTCL. This article will review the findings of studies exploring potential roles of infectious agents in CTCL. In addition, we investigated CTCL tissues for evidence of infection with Merkel cell polyomavirus, a novel polyomavirus that was recently discovered as a probable carcinogenic agent in Merkel cell carcinoma. Cutaneous lesions demonstrating mycosis fungoides were stained with a monoclonal antibody against the Merkel cell polyomavirus T antigen, along with appropriate positive and negative controls. Immunohistochemical stains produced negative results in all examined mycosis fungoides specimens. These findings, which suggest a lack of association of CTCL with Merkel cell polyomavirus, add to the current body of knowledge regarding infectious agents and CTCL.
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- Ezra D Mirvish
- Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Courgnaud V, Duthanh A, Guillot B, Sitbon M, Dereure O. Absence of HTLV-Related Sequences in Skin Lesions and Peripheral Blood of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas. J Invest Dermatol 2009; 129:2520-2. [DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Kiss J, Kiss A, Tóth FD, Surányi P, Szegedi A, Rak K. Demonstration of HTLV-Related Pro viral DNA Sequences and Antibodies Reactive with HTLV Internal Proteins in an Hungarian Patient with Sézary Syndrome. Leuk Lymphoma 2009; 7:511-5. [PMID: 1362917 DOI: 10.3109/10428199209049809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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DNA sequences distantly related to the proviral DNA of HTLV-I were found in the leukemic cells of a Hungarian patient suffering from Sézary syndrome. Serum samples from the patient contained antibodies reactive with the internal core polypeptides of HTLV-I and HTLV-II, but not with the env gene encoded type-specific HTLV antigens. The husband and daughter of the patient also had antibodies of the same specificity. These findings suggest the presence of a virus distantly related to HTLV-I and HTLV-II.
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- J Kiss
- Institute of Microbiology, University Medical School, Debrecen, Hungary
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BÖNI R, DAVIS-DANESHFAR A, BURG G, FUCHS D, WOOD G. No detection of HTLV-I proviral DNA in lesional skin biopsies from Swiss and German patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Br J Dermatol 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1996.tb07614.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Schmidt AN, Robbins JB, Greer JP, Zic JA. Conjugal transformed mycosis fungoides: the unknown role of viral infection and environmental exposures in the development of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 2006; 54:S202-5. [PMID: 16631940 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2005] [Revised: 08/30/2005] [Accepted: 09/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The etiology of mycosis fungoides (MF) is uncertain, although infectious agents and other environmental exposures have been implicated. We describe what appears to be the first case in which both a husband and his wife were diagnosed with large-cell transformation of MF. After 10 years of having stage I MF, the wife developed tumors that showed sheets of large transformed cells with dysplastic nuclei on skin biopsies, leading to a diagnosis of transformed MF. Her husband was diagnosed 14 months later with transformed MF following a biopsy of his right arm and leg after a 15-year history of presumed psoriasis. The fact that this rare occurrence happened in a couple who had been married for more than 25 years points to a common environmental exposure. Future studies should aim to clarify the potential role of infectious agents, such as human T-lymphotropic virus I and II, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and other environmental exposures, in the development of MF.
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- Adriana N Schmidt
- Division of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Karpas A. Human retroviruses in leukaemia and AIDS: reflections on their discovery, biology and epidemiology. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2005; 79:911-33. [PMID: 15682876 DOI: 10.1017/s1464793104006505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The study of retroviruses has had a profound impact by unveiling an unusual form of viral replication: the multiplication of RNA viruses via a proviral DNA, for which Jan Svoboda provided the experimental model over forty years ago. In 1970 Temin, Mizutani and Baltimore discovered that this group of viruses contains a unique enzyme catalysing the synthesis of a DNA copy of the viral RNA: reverse transcriptase (RT). The discovery of RT has itself had an enormous impact on molecular biology in general, but also stimulated many premature claims of its detection in human disease. Claims by Gallo's laboratory that the cytoplasm of human leukaemia cells contained RT proved to be unfounded, as did his report in collaboration with Weiss that myeloid leukaemia contained HL23 virus, this organism proving not to be human but a laboratory contaminant of three monkey viruses. Conclusive demonstration of a retroviral involvement in human leukaemia was first provided in 1981 by Hinuma and his associates, showing that adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL), a rare form of leukaemia endemic to south-west Japan, is caused by a new retrovirus (ATLV). Other publications in December 1980 and through 1981 claimed the discovery of a new human T-cell leukaemia virus involved in mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary's syndrome (SS). This virus was termed HTLV by Gallo. The nucleotide sequence of ATLV is strongly conserved, that of my 1983 isolate from a black British ATL patient being practically identical with the Japanese virus isolates. After AIDS was recognised in 1981 by Gottlieb and coworkers as a new human disease, several papers were published by Gallo and his associates during 1983-4, invoking the oncovirus responsible for adult T-cell leukaemia as the cause of AIDS. In 1983 the French scientist Barré-Sinoussi and her colleagues succeeded in isolating a new agent in the disease, a lentivirus, which they named LAV. The French immunologist Klatzmann and his colleagues discovered that LAV killed CD4+ T-cells, furnishing an explanation for the pathogenesis of AIDS and providing a mechanism for how AIDS developed. For some time Gallo continued to suggest leukaemia virus involvement, claiming that his independent isolate of the AIDS virus, termed HTLV-III, was closely related to HTLV-I (the Japanese ATLV). Although this created considerable confusion among researchers for a period, the relationship was eventually disproved. Unlike ATLV, whose nucleic acid sequence is very stable, the AIDS virus (now termed HIV by international agreement) is extraordinarily unstable, the sequences of independent HIV isolates being quite unique: this made it possible to establish conclusively that both HTLV-III and another independent isolate CBL-1, from Weiss' laboratory, were actually LAV isolates from the French laboratory. It has been shown by Hayami and his associates that only African primates are infected with similar lentiviruses to HIV which explains why AIDS started in Africa. Further research has clarified the origin of HIV-1 to be a chimpanzee lentivirus and HIV-2 to be the sooty mangabey lentivirus, which began to spread in humans perhaps no more than fifty years ago. The infection has spread rapidly, primarily through sexual intercourse, but also by transmission through blood and its products as well as contaminated needles and syringes. Sexual intercourse has now spread the virus around the World; and there are probably some 70 million infected. 90% of those infected with HIV develop the deadly disease of AIDS within ten years of infection: the death toll from the disease has been enormous. By contrast, HTLV-1 has been infecting man in isolated areas probably for hundreds of years; but it has not spread widely. HTLV causes leukaemia in only less than 1% of those infected. The prime mode of transmission of HTLV-1 is between mother and neonate; infections can be reduced by stopping breast-feeding by infected mothers. The isolation of HIV enabled screening tests to be developed for contaminated blood. However, due to the peculiar biology of HIV infection, unfortunately all efforts to develop an effective vaccine have so far failed.
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- Abraham Karpas
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge Clinical School, MRC Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK.
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Morales MM, Olsen J, Johansen P, Kaerlev L, Guénel P, Arveux P, Wingren G, Hardell L, Ahrens W, Stang A, Llopis A, Merletti F, Villanueva MA. Viral infection, atopy and mycosis fungoides: a European multicentre case-control study. Eur J Cancer 2003; 39:511-6. [PMID: 12751383 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(02)00773-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mycosis fungoides (MF) is a rare disease with an unknown aetiology, although it has been suggested that infections may play a role. The present study investigates whether infections, atopic disorders and some other diseases are risk indicators for MF. A European multicentre case-control study involving seven rare cancers, including MF, was conducted from 1995 to 1998. Patients between 35 and 69 years of age diagnosed with MF (n = 140) were recruited, and the diagnoses were verified by a reference pathologist, who classified 83 cases as definitive and 35 cases as possible; 22 cases were not accepted. Of the 118 accepted cases, 104 patients were interviewed (including 76 definitive cases and 28 possible cases). These 76 definitive cases were used for this study. A common set of controls to serve all case groups were interviewed, representing a total of 4574 controls. The latter included 1008 colon cancer patients and 3566 subjects selected from population registers. Information on infections, skin pathology and clinical history 5 years before the diagnosis of MF was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) derived from logistic regression-modelling, which included gender, age and country. The highest ORs for MF were found in patients who reported a history of psoriasis 5 years before MF was diagnosed (OR 7.2, 95% CI: 3.6-14.5). Urticaria had an OR of 1.4 (95% CI: 0.6-3.6). Infections and atopic diseases were not closely associated with MF. Some diseases correlated to MF. Whether this has a causal background or reflects early diagnostic uncertainty is not known.
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- M M Morales
- Unit of Public Health and Environmental Care, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Valencia, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Dr. Peset University Hospital, Valencia, Spain.
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Gastaldello R, Gallego S, Isa MB, Maturano E, Sileoni S, Nates S, Medeot S. Immunofluorescence assay reactivity patterns of serum samples presenting indeterminate Western blot results for antibodies to HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II in Cordoba, Argentina. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 2001; 43:277-82. [PMID: 11696851 DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652001000500008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Serum samples (n: 110) from blood donors and high risk individuals from Cordoba, Argentina with indeterminate HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II Wb profiles were studied for specific antibodies to HTLV-I/II and HIV-1 by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and for the presence or absence of HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II specific bands by Wb. This study was carried out in order to characterize their putative reactions with HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II proteins and to resolve the retrovirus infection status of these individuals. Results indicated that blood donors sera displaying indeterminate HIV-1 or HTLV-I/II Wb patterns were not immunoreactive to HTLV-I/II and HIV-1 on IFA. However, a high rate of indeterminate HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II Wb samples from high risk individuals had positive HTLV-I/II and HIV-1 IFA results respectively. Our study supports the growing evidence that HTLV-HIV indeterminate seroreactivity in low risk population is due to a cross reaction against nonviral antigens, and in high risk populations the indeterminate samples show serological cross-recognition between HIV-1 proteins and HTLV-I/II proteins on Wb. These results point out the necessity to investigate the HTLV-I/II reactivity in indeterminate HIV-1 samples and vice versa in order to confirm the diagnosis. Finally, this study shows the potential usefulness of IFA in elucidating the status of HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II infection of individuals with indeterminate Wb profiles, thus enabling resolution of retrovirus infection status.
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- R Gastaldello
- Institute of Virology Dr. J. M. Vanella, Faculty of Medical Science, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina.
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Murovska M, Lejniece S, Kozireva S, Koulikovska M, Yin H, Blomberg J. Human retrovirus 5 sequences in peripheral blood cells of patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Int J Cancer 2000; 85:762-70. [PMID: 10709092 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(20000315)85:6<762::aid-ijc4>3.0.co;2-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A recently described sequence from a probable 5th human exogenous retrovirus, HRV-5, is related to type A, B and D retroviruses. It was initially detected in a salivary gland biopsy from a patient with Sjögren's syndrome, but it is not consistently associated with this disease. We searched for the HRV-5 sequence in DNA extracted from whole blood of 300 blood donors, 81 patients with hematological malignancy and 21 patients with neurological disease using PCR. While samples from none of the blood donors and the neurological patients became positive, 3 of the 81 patients with hematological malignancy were HRV-5 DNA positive. All 3 had B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of low grade. The difference in frequency between NHL and controls is statistically significant. HRV-5 DNA was found in DNA from whole blood and in plastic-adherent cells but not in tumor cell DNA. Thus, monocytes/macrophages may be preferred targets for HRV-5. Our result, together with a previous finding of HRV-5 DNA in 2 NHL cases, is compatible with an association between HRV-5 and NHL, whether causal or not.
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- M Murovska
- Section of Virology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
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BACKGROUND The incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has increased in most Western countries during the last few decades. Immunodefective conditions are established risk factors. In 1981, the authors reported an increased risk for NHL following exposure to certain pesticides. The current study was designed to further elucidate the importance of phenoxyacetic acids and other pesticides in the etiology of NHL. METHODS A population-based case-control study in northern and middle Sweden encompassing 442 cases and twice as many controls was performed. Exposure data were ascertained by comprehensive questionnaires, and the questionnaires were supplemented by telephone interviews. In total, 404 cases and 741 controls answered the questionnaire. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed with the SAS statistical data program. RESULTS Increased risk for NHL was found for subjects exposed to herbicides (odds ratio [OR], 1.6; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.0-2.5) and fungicides (OR, 3.7; 95% CI, 1.1-13.0). Among herbicides, the phenoxyacetic acids dominated (OR, 1.5; 95% CI, 0.9-2.4); and, when subclassified, one of these, 4-chloro-2-methyl phenoxyacetic acid (MCPA), turned out to be significantly associated with NHL (OR, 2.7; 95% CI, 1.0-6.9). For several categories of herbicides, it was noted that only exposure during the most recent decades before diagnosis of NHL was associated with an increased risk of NHL. Exposure to impregnating agents and insecticides was, at most, only weakly related to NHL. CONCLUSIONS Exposure to herbicides in total, including phenoxyacetic acids, during the decades before NHL diagnosis resulted in increased risk for NHL. Thus, the risk following exposure was related to the latency period. Fungicides also increased the risk for NHL when combined, but this group consisted of several different agents, and few subjects were exposed to each type of fungicide.
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- L Hardell
- Department of Oncology, Orebro Medical Center, Sweden
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McBurney EI, Hickham PR, Garry RF, Reed RJ. Lupus erythematosus-like features in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Int J Dermatol 1998; 37:579-85. [PMID: 9732001 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.1998.00501.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The development of lupus erythematosus-like (LE-like) features in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) has not been reported previously in the literature. Both diseases, however, have been etiologically linked to retroviruses. OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to report four cases of patients with CTCL who developed LE-like features during the course of their disease, and to evaluate for evidence of antibodies to retroviruses in the sera of these patients. PATIENTS Four patients with biopsy-proven CTCL with clinical or histologic features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were evaluated for clinical and laboratory criteria for SLE. Only one patient demonstrated four American Rheumatism Association (ARA) criteria sufficient for the diagnosis of SLE. The remaining three patients demonstrated one or two criteria for SLE. In addition, the sera of these patients were examined by Western blot analysis for evidence of human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-I), human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type I (HTLV-I), or human intracisternal A-type particle type I (HIAP-I) retroviral proteins. Each patient demonstrated antibodies to some of the retroviral proteins examined. The sera of two patients reacted to proteins for HIAP-I, and the sera of two patients reacted to p24 gag proteins of HIV-I. No patient reacted to HTLV-I proteins. CONCLUSIONS Our report identifies four patients with CTCL who developed LE-like features during the course of their disease. Although the etiology of CTCL and SLE has not been well established, each has been linked to retroviruses. Evidence of antibodies to retroviral proteins was identified in each of our patients by Western blot analysis. Although the clinical and laboratory findings in these cases do not resolve the etiologic role of retroviruses in CTCL or SLE, they suggest that retroviruses may have a role in the pathogenesis of the clinical phenomenon reported in these four patients.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Blotting, Western
- Female
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct
- HIV Antibodies/analysis
- HIV Infections/complications
- HIV Infections/virology
- HIV-1/immunology
- HTLV-I Antibodies/analysis
- HTLV-I Infections/complications
- HTLV-I Infections/virology
- Humans
- Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous/complications
- Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous/pathology
- Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous/virology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/complications
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/virology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Proteins/analysis
- Skin/pathology
- X-Linked Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein
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- E I McBurney
- Department of Dermatology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
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Absence of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type I in Japanese Patients With Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma. Blood 1997. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v89.5.1529.1529_1529_1532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a disease entity characterized by a primary sporadic T-cell proliferation in the skin. Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Recently, several authors have detected the HTLV-1 genome in genomic DNA from patients with CTCL and proposed a causal relation of HTLV-1 to CTCL. However, it remains controversial because these studies contain some problems in materials used to detect HTLV-1. We investigated both fresh and cultured T lymphocytes (128 specimens) derived from 50 Japanese patients with CTCL, where HTLV-1 is endemic, by using polymerase chain reaction with four sets of primers including gag,pol,env, and pX regions of HTLV-1 to elucidate the relationship between HTLV-1 and CTCL in Japan. However, none of the 128 DNA specimens revealed positive for HTLV-1 in contrast to the previous studies. We conclude that CTCL, which does not include HTLV-1, is present although the pathogenesis of CTCL may be different by areas or races. © 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a disease entity characterized by a primary sporadic T-cell proliferation in the skin. Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that causes adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Recently, several authors have detected the HTLV-1 genome in genomic DNA from patients with CTCL and proposed a causal relation of HTLV-1 to CTCL. However, it remains controversial because these studies contain some problems in materials used to detect HTLV-1. We investigated both fresh and cultured T lymphocytes (128 specimens) derived from 50 Japanese patients with CTCL, where HTLV-1 is endemic, by using polymerase chain reaction with four sets of primers including gag,pol,env, and pX regions of HTLV-1 to elucidate the relationship between HTLV-1 and CTCL in Japan. However, none of the 128 DNA specimens revealed positive for HTLV-1 in contrast to the previous studies. We conclude that CTCL, which does not include HTLV-1, is present although the pathogenesis of CTCL may be different by areas or races. © 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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Fujihara K, Goldman B, Oseroff AR, Glenister N, Jaffe ES, Bisaccia E, Pincus S, Greenberg SJ. HTLV-associated diseases: human retroviral infection and cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. Immunol Invest 1997; 26:231-42. [PMID: 9037626 DOI: 10.3109/08820139709048929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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An array of neurologic, oncologic, and autoimmune disorders are associated with infection with the human pathogenic retroviruses human T-cell leukemia virus types I and II (HTLV-I, II), as well as the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). The cutaneous T-cell lymphomas, mycosis fungoides (MF) and its hematogenous variant Sezary Syndrome (SS), share similar clinical and pathological features to HTLV-I-associated adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and speculation of a retroviral link to MF and SS, especially in areas non-endemic for ATL, has lead to an intensified search for HTLV- and HIV-like agents in these diseases. To further explore a potential role for human retroviruses in MF and SS, skin biopsy-derived or peripheral blood mononuclear cell-derived DNA from 17 patients (MF, n = 7; erythrodermic MF (EMF), n = 5; SS, n = 5) from the North Eastern United States were screened using gene amplification by PCR and a liquid hybridization detection assay. Previously published primers and probes for HTLV-I (LTR, gag, pol, env, and pX), and our own primers and probes for HTLV-I (gag, pol, and env), HTLV-II (pol and env) and HIV-I (gag and pol) were employed. Serum antibodies to HTLV-I were negative in all but one EMF patient. The single HTLV-I seropositive patient carrying a diagnosis of EMF generated positive amplified signals for all of the eight HTLV-I regions tested. Ultimately, this individual evolved to exhibit clinical manifestations indistinguishable from ATL. The other 16 patients were negative for all 12 HTLV and HIV retroviral regions. Our findings suggest that none of the known prototypic human retroviruses are associated with seronegative MF and SS. The uniformly positive results for HTLV-I in the seropositive patient suggests that this patient initially presented with a smoldering form of ATL and illustrates the difficulty that sometimes may be encountered in the differential diagnosis of MF, SS, and ATL based solely on clinical and histopathological criteria.
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- K Fujihara
- Department of Neurology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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Li G, Vowels BR, Benoit BM, Rook AH, Lessin SR. Failure to detect human T-lymphotropic virus type-I proviral DNA in cell lines and tissues from patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Invest Dermatol 1996; 107:308-13. [PMID: 8751961 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12363017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Previous molecular studies investigating the presence of HTLV-I proviral DNA in cell lines and tissue samples of patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) have reported a detection rate ranging from 0-92%. Despite the lack of epidemiologic data linking HTLV-I infection with CTCL, the molecular data still invite speculation regarding the precise role of HTLV-I in the pathogenesis of CTCL. To determine the detection rate of HTLV-I proviral DNA among CTCL patients referred to our medical center, we analyzed Epstein-Barr virus-transformed cell lines established from peripheral blood of seven CTCL patients and 43 tissue samples from 22 patients with different stages of disease. Genomic DNA was polymerase chain reaction-amplified with primers within the HTLV-I tax gene region. Amplification products were probed with nested oligonucleotide probes by Southern blot analysis. No HTLV-I proviral sequences were detected in the samples (0/50). Using HTLV-I/II pol primers, no HTLV-I pol gene sequences were detected. In tissues from one patient, HTLV-II pol and tax gene sequences were detected; however, HTLV-II proviral integration was not detected by Southern blot analysis of the genomic DNA. Our data suggest: (i) HTLV-I does not appear to be a primary etiologic agent in CTCL; and (ii) HTLV-II pol and tax gene sequences can be detected in a minority of CTCL patients, but this does not necessarily imply an etiologic role.
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- G Li
- Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Wood GS, Salvekar A, Schaffer J, Crooks CF, Henghold W, Fivenson DP, Kim YH, Smoller BR. Evidence against a role for human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type I (HTLV-I) in the pathogenesis of American cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Invest Dermatol 1996; 107:301-7. [PMID: 8751960 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12363010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We used a standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR)/Southern blot assay (sensitivity > 10(-5)) to detect human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type I (HTLV-I) proviral pX, pol, and env genes in the lesional skin of 42 American patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). As in some prior reports using similar methods, a variable proportion of PCR tests were positive (seven of 42 for pX, three of 42 for pol, and two of 37 for env), resulting in an overall positive test rate of 12 of 121 (10%). To determine the significance of these positive test results, we performed several additional studies. D1S80 polymorphism analysis of CTCL cases and HTLV-I PCR analysis of non-CTCL dermatosis controls showed no evidence that positive PCR tests resulted from sample mislabeling, gross HTLV-I contamination, or human endogenous retroviruses. We then modified the standard PCR assay to incorporate ultraviolet (UV) light to destroy low-level PCR contamination. With this modified assay (sensitivity > 10(-5)), only three of 12 previously positive cases were still positive, suggesting that the earlier positives were due to trace contamination of PCR reagents or trace contamination of sample DNA. This interpretation was also supported by: (i) a match between pX and pol sequences cloned from one PCR-positive specimen and the MT4-positive control, (ii) our inability to confirm HTLV-I in any PCR-positive case using genomic dot blotting (sensitivity > 10(-2)), and (iii) negative PCR results when new samples from two of the remaining positive cases were analyzed. Finally, we used our modified UV/ PCR/Southern blot assay to test an additional 28 cases of American CTCL for pX. All of them were negative. Although these studies of 70 cases of American CTCL do not exclude the possibility that another virus is involved in the pathogenesis of this disease, they provide strong evidence against a role for HTLV-I. Furthermore, they emphasize the need for special strategies to control for false-positive PCR tests that can result from even trace levels of contamination with viral DNA. As a consequence, associations between diseases and viruses should be viewed skeptically if they are based primarily on conventional PCR data.
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- G S Wood
- Department of Dermatology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- A L Lorincz
- Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Pancake BA, Zucker-Franklin D, Coutavas EE. The cutaneous T cell lymphoma, mycosis fungoides, is a human T cell lymphotropic virus-associated disease. A study of 50 patients. J Clin Invest 1995; 95:547-54. [PMID: 7860737 PMCID: PMC295510 DOI: 10.1172/jci117697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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For nearly two decades it has been suspected that the cutaneous T cell lymphoma, mycosis fungoides (MF), and its leukemic variant, the Sézary syndrome, are caused by the human T lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I/II). Arguments against this concept included the finding that only a small number of MF patients have antibodies to HTLV-I/II and that attempts to detect proviral sequences by mere Southern hybridization of extracted DNA usually met with failure. However, we have reported repeatedly that HTLV-like particles emerge in blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cultures of practically all patients with this disease. In several instances, the particles were identified as HTLV by immunoelectron microscopy as well as biomolecular analysis. With the assumptions that the virus in MF patients may have become detection by Southern hybridization alone, the extracts of freshly isolated PBMC of 50 consecutive patients were subjected to combined PCR/Southern analysis. Here we report the presence of HTLV pol and/or tax proviral sequences in 46 out of 50 (92%) of the patients tested. In addition, five of the patients, who lacked antibodies to HTLV-I/II structural proteins, were found to be seropositive for tax. It thus seems reasonable to conclude that MF/Sézary syndrome is an HTLV-associated disease and that lack of an immune response does not preclude infection with this type of virus.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/blood
- Female
- Gene Products, tax/biosynthesis
- Genes, Viral
- Genes, pX
- Genes, pol
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/isolation & purification
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/pathogenicity
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/ultrastructure
- Humans
- Lymphocytes/virology
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycosis Fungoides/virology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Reference Values
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Sezary Syndrome/virology
- Skin Neoplasms/virology
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- B A Pancake
- Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016
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Peris K, Niedermeyer H, Cerroni L, Radaskiewicz T, Chimenti S, Höfler H. Detection of Epstein-Barr virus genome in primary cutaneous T and B cell lymphomas and pseudolymphomas. Arch Dermatol Res 1994; 286:364-8. [PMID: 7818277 DOI: 10.1007/bf00371794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome has recently been identified in Hodgkin's disease (HD) and nodal non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL). In order to elucidate the possible aetiopathogenetic role of EBV in benign and malignant lymphoproliferative disorders we investigated skin specimens from 24 patients with a primary cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders (10 T-cell lymphomas 6 B-cell lymphomas and 8 pseudolymphomas) and from 22 normal individuals for the presence of EBV DNA using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique and in situ hybridization (ISH) on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections. EBV DNA was identified by PCR in one of two cases of mycosis fungoides, in one of seven cases of pleomorphic T-cell lymphomas, in one case of centroblastic (CB) lymphoma of six B-cell lymphomas, and in three of eight pseudolymphomas. The EBV genome was also found in 2 of 22 specimens of normal skin. The small EBV-encoded nuclear RNAs, EBERs, were not detected in any PCR-positive sample by ISH. Based on our PCR and ISH findings, EBV does not seem to play a significant role in the development of cutaneous lymphomas.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Biopsy
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Genome, Viral
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/chemistry
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/chemistry
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/chemistry
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/pathology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Skin Neoplasms/chemistry
- Skin Neoplasms/genetics
- Skin Neoplasms/pathology
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- K Peris
- Department of Dermatology, University of L'Aquila, Italy
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Chen IS, Zack JA. Modeling human retroviral pathogenesis and antiretroviral gene therapy in the SCID mouse. RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY 1994; 145:385-92. [PMID: 7701119 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2494(94)80204-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- I S Chen
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
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Groshek PM, Dean GA, Hoover EA. Monoclonal antibodies identifying feline haemopoietic cell lineages. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00185171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Brice SL, Jester JD, Friednash M, Golitz LE, Leahy MA, Stockert SS, Weston WL. Examination of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma for human herpesviruses by using the polymerase chain reaction. J Cutan Pathol 1993; 20:304-7. [PMID: 8227605 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1993.tb01266.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The etiology of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma remains unknown, although an association with viral infection, in particular certain retroviruses and human herpesviruses, has been suggested. The purpose of this study was to examine skin biopsies of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2, and human herpesvirus-6 by using the polymerase chain reaction. Lesional skin biopsies from 30 patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma were studied. Control specimens included biopsies from 9 patients with lymphomatoid papulosis and 10 patients with pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta. DNA extracted from each specimen, as well as from a known positive control for each virus, was examined by using the polymerase chain reaction with viral-specific primers. Each DNA specimen was also amplified with control primers for human beta globin. The specificity of the amplified products was confirmed by Southern analysis. Neither Epstein-Barr virus nor herpes simplex virus was detected in any of the patient specimens examined. Human herpesvirus-6 was detected in one specimen of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and one specimen of lymphomatoid papulosis. These results do not support a role for any of these herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
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MESH Headings
- Biopsy
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Herpesviridae/genetics
- Herpesviridae/physiology
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 1, Human/physiology
- Herpesvirus 2, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 2, Human/physiology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/physiology
- Herpesvirus 6, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 6, Human/physiology
- Humans
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/chemistry
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/microbiology
- Skin/chemistry
- Skin/pathology
- Skin Neoplasms/chemistry
- Skin Neoplasms/microbiology
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- S L Brice
- Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262
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Thomas I, Nychay SG, Schwartz RA, Lambert WC, Janniger CK. The red face: cutaneous lymphomas. Clin Dermatol 1993; 11:319-28. [PMID: 8348447 DOI: 10.1016/0738-081x(93)90069-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- I Thomas
- Department of Dermatology, New Jersey Medical School, Newark
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Sherman MP, Dube DK, Saksena NK, Poiesz BJ. Human T-cell lymphoma/leukemia retroviruses and malignancy. Cancer Treat Res 1993; 64:79-103. [PMID: 8095798 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-3086-2_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- M P Sherman
- Department of Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210
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Blomberg J, Möller T, Olsson H, Anderson H, Jonsson M. Cancer morbidity in blood recipients--results of a cohort study. Eur J Cancer 1993; 29A:2101-5. [PMID: 8297647 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8049(93)90042-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Blood transfusions involve the transfer of relatively large volumes of body fluids and cellular material between individuals. A variety of pathogens like viruses, some of which are associated with development of certain tumours, are known to be transmitted by this route. Blood recipients were identified during 1981-1982 in the register of the hospital blood centre, and in-patients by the in-patient and discharge register of the hospital. Tumour occurrence and vital status were determined by means of the population-based regional tumour register. Age, gender and calendar-year specific rates from the general population were used to calculate expected values. In a cohort study of 3177 blood recipients, increased numbers of malignant lymphomas [13 vs. 4.8 expected, standard morbidity ratio (SMR) 2.70 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.44-4.62] and skin cancers [12 vs. 5.2 expected, SMR 2.29, 95% CI 1.19-4.01] were seen 3 to 9 years after transfusion. In a second cohort study of 29,910 hospitalised patients, a total of 37 (29.8 expected) malignant lymphomas was found in 28,338 patients with no transfusion and 10 (2.73 expected) in 1572 patients with a transfusion, 3 to 9 years after the hospitalisation. The incidence rate ratio between these groups was 3.11 (95% CI 1.56-6.20) using a Mantel-Haenszel estimator with age stratification. Non-melanomatous skin cancers had an incidence ratio of 2.74 (95% CI 1.25-6.00). We conclude that, in the cohorts discussed here, malignant lymphomas and skin cancer occur more often in blood recipients than in controls. It remains to be established whether this is due to factors covariating with transfusion or by the transfusion itself. Further studies on these putative associations are warranted, as are analytical studies of the epidemiology of malignant lymphomas, especially non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, whose aetiology is still poorly understood.
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- J Blomberg
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Islas S, Yamaguchi K, Silva R, Nishimura Y, Kawano F, Ponce M, Barra R, Takatsuki K. HTLV-I/II infection is absent among risk groups from Mexico City. Vox Sang 1993; 64:57-8. [PMID: 8447121 DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1993.tb02516.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Kiss J, Telek B, Tóth FD, Rejtö L, Surányi P, Rák K. HTLV-related markers in a Hungarian patient with adult T-cell leukemia. Leuk Res 1992; 16:1125-31. [PMID: 1434748 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(92)90051-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Monoclonal integration of DNA sequences related to, but not identical to HTLV-I provirus was detected in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of a Hungarian male suffering from ATL. The patient and his parents showed serological cross-reactivity with both HTLV-I and HTLV-II group-specific antigens. Restriction enzyme analysis with EcoRI, PstI, BamHI, HindIII and SacI revealed structural similarity of the provirus integrated in the DNA of ATL cells to HTLV-I but not to HTLV-II. Data suggest that this provirus and HTLV-I are similar to each other along gag and pol regions, but they are different in the env region.
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- J Kiss
- Institute of Microbiology, University Medical School of Debrecen, Hungary
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Lisby G, Reitz MS, Vejlsgaard GL. No detection of HTLV-I DNA in punch skin biopsies from patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by the polymerase chain reaction. J Invest Dermatol 1992; 98:417-20. [PMID: 1548426 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12499842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In this study we have tried to take advantage of the high genetic homology between conserved regions of human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) types I and II, hoping that a possible retrovirus in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) would have regions with homology to types I/II. DNA was extracted from punch skin biopsies from 21 patients and subjected to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using primer sets designed to match conserved regions in the HTLV-I/II genome. The PCR products were subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis with subsequent Southern blotting and hybridization to an HTLV-I probe. No bands of exogenous origin were seen on the agarose gel or by hybridization. If a retrovirus is present in the skin in CTCL patients, it is either not related to HTLV-I/II, present at a copy number below the PCR detection limit, or has been cleared from the skin before the clinical symptoms appear.
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- G Lisby
- Department of Clinical Microbiology (GL), Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Weber B, Hess G, Enzensberger R, Harms F, Evans CJ, Hamann A, Doerr HW. Multicenter evaluation of the novel ABN Western blot (immunoblot) system in comparison with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and a different Western blot. J Clin Microbiol 1992; 30:691-7. [PMID: 1551987 PMCID: PMC265134 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.30.3.691-697.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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A new, modular Western blot (immunoblot) system for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies (ABN WesPage; Wellcome) was compared with enzyme immunoassays (Wellcome, Behringwerke, and Abbott) and with a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-licensed Western blot (DuPont) in a multicenter study. A total of 649 serum samples from HIV patients at different stages of the disease, as well as from high-risk patients, from patients with conditions unrelated to AIDS, and from healthy blood donors, were used in the evaluation along with nine seroconversion panels. For evaluation of Western blot reactivity, both Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and FDA criteria were used. With the DuPont Western blot as the reference assay, the overall sensitivity and specificity of the ABN WesPage were 100 and 99.1%, respectively, when indeterminate results were not taken into account and when both tests were interpreted in accordance with CDC criteria. The DuPont Western blot detected significantly more antibodies to pol and gag gene products than the ABN WesPage. The ABN WesPage showed a higher positive rate of detection of viral envelope band gp160. When both Western blots were interpreted in accordance with CDC criteria, the ABN WesPage and the DuPont Western blot yielded 9.3 and 10.4% indeterminate results, respectively. When the DuPont Western blot was interpreted in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions (FDA criteria), 25.7% of the samples tested were regarded as indeterminate. The choice of interpretation criteria is of paramount importance for the evaluation of HIV Western blot patterns.
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- B Weber
- Abteilung für Medizinische Virologie, Universitäts-Kliniken Frankfurt, Germany
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Gilks CB, Ho VC, Gascoyne RD, Ellison DJ. T-cell receptor variable region gene expression in cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. J Cutan Pathol 1992; 19:21-6. [PMID: 1556263 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1992.tb01554.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCL) are a group of diseases characterized by malignant proliferations of CD4 positive T-cells having monoclonally rearranged T-cell receptor (TCR) genes. A recent study using monoclonal antibodies to two TCR beta-chain variable (V) region gene products showed preferential expression of the V beta 8 gene product in these tumors. The finding of predominant usage of a single V beta gene would imply that selection by antigen is important in the etiology of these tumors. We have studied eight cases of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and one cell line derived from a patient with mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome, using an extended panel of antibodies to V region gene products. Contrary to the previous report, in our study expression of the V beta 8 gene product by tumor cells was not observed in any of the cases of CTCL or in the tumor cell line studied; preferential use of any of the variable region genes recognized by the antibodies in the panel was not observed.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/physiology
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Humans
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/physiopathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/ultrastructure
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Sezary Syndrome/genetics
- Sezary Syndrome/physiopathology
- Skin Neoplasms/genetics
- Skin Neoplasms/physiopathology
- Skin Neoplasms/ultrastructure
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- C B Gilks
- Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
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The etiology of mycosis fungoides is unknown. Two possible causes (an unknown retrovirus with increased prevalence among never-married men, and prior malignancies) were investigated to determine whether they are associated with the incidence of mycosis fungoides. During 1973 to 1986, 953 case patients with mycosis fungoides or Sézary syndrome were registered by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program. Each was matched by 5-year age group, sex, ethnicity, and geographic area to four control subjects, one each with cancer of the pancreas, brain, and stomach, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. For never-versus ever-married men, none of the relative risks differed significantly from those for women (odd ratios, .8-1.0). For any prior malignancy, the relative risks (and 95% confidence intervals) were 1.3 (.9-2.0), 1.2 (.8-1.8), 1.0 (.7-1.5), and 1.1 (.7-1.6). These data reject the previous relative risk estimate of 3.3 with greater than 99% power, and are consistent with only a small risk, if any, attributable to prior malignancy.
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- M A Weinstock
- Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center, Providence, RI
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Zucker-Franklin D, Coutavas EE, Rush MG, Zouzias DC. Detection of human T-lymphotropic virus-like particles in cultures of peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with mycosis fungoides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:7630-4. [PMID: 1881904 PMCID: PMC52355 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.17.7630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Because of seronegativity and absence of a leukemic phase in most patients with mycosis fungoides, a role for the human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in this disease has remained tenuous. Virus particles are not seen in fresh isolates of skin or blood lymphocytes and the malignant cells (Sézary cells) have been difficult to culture. The availability of growth factors and biomolecular techniques have prompted a renewed attempt to find evidence of virus infection in these patients. We report here the successful culture of blood lymphocytes of 17 patients with mycosis fungoides and 1 patient with the Sézary syndrome. The cells of 2 additional patients failed to grow after 4-6 weeks in vitro. Ultrastructural analysis of the cultures showed an abundance of HTLV-like particles in the specimens of 18 of the 20 patients. Preliminary immunohistochemical studies carried out with various antisera directed against HTLV-I and the polymerase chain reaction utilizing a probe for a conserved region of the pol gene of HTLV-I were positive on only a portion of the specimens. Although definitive characterization of this organism awaits further analysis, it seems likely that circulating lymphocytes of all patients with mycosis fungoides harbor a virus that morphologically resembles HTLV-I.
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- D Zucker-Franklin
- Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016
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There are rapidly increasing opportunities for dermatologists to see patients suffering from retrovirus infections. The HTLV-I was the first class of human oncogenic retrovirus that was found in cultured cells of a patient with skin manifestations similar or identical to those of CTCL (MF). It was soon recognized as the agent causing ATLL. The skin manifestations, histopathology, and immunophenotypes of ATLL share many similarities with MF and SS. Both HTLV-I and HIV-I (HTLV-III) cause immunodeficiency with an increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections. Persistent generalized lymphadenopathies are the initial manifestations of most of the HIV infections. The incidence of lymphoid malignancies is expected to become much higher as the life span of AIDS patients is prolonged. They can have both B-cell and T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas, although the incidence of the latter (B-cell lymphoma) is still much higher than that of the former. All human retroviruses are transmitted in similar ways.
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- K Jimbow
- Department of Medicine, University of Alberta School of Medicine, Edmonton, Canada
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Hall WW, Liu CR, Schneewind O, Takahashi H, Kaplan MH, Röupe G, Vahlne A. Deleted HTLV-I provirus in blood and cutaneous lesions of patients with mycosis fungoides. Science 1991; 253:317-20. [PMID: 1857968 DOI: 10.1126/science.1857968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Mycosis fungoides, a rare form of cutaneous T cell leukemia/lymphoma, is suspected of having a viral etiology on the basis of certain similarities to adult T cell leukemia, which is associated with human T cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type I (HTLV-I) infection. Cell lines were established from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of an HTLV-I-seronegative patient with mycosis fungoides. DNA hybridization analysis revealed the presence of HTLV-I-related sequences with unusual restriction endonuclease sites. Sequence analysis of subcloned fragments demonstrated the presence of a monoclonally integrated provirus with a 5.5-kilobase deletion involving large regions of gag and env and all of pol. Additional evidence for the presence of deleted proviruses was found by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of DNA from cutaneous lesions of five other HTLV-I-seronegative patients. The findings suggest that HTLV-I infection may be involved in the etiology of at least certain cases of mycosis fungoides.
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- W W Hall
- Division of Infectious Disease, North Shore University Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, Manhasset, NY 11030
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- M Nevin
- Department of Dermatology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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French D, Mammarella S, Curia MC, Porrini AM, Giampietro A, Macor S, Lombardi V, Aglianò AM, Manzari V, Lugaresi A. Amplifications of multiple regions of the HTLV-I genome from DNA of an Italian spastic paraparesis patient but not from DNA of multiple sclerosis patients. J Neurol Sci 1991; 103:82-9. [PMID: 1865236 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(91)90288-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We searched for evidence of infection by the human T-cell lymphoma/leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) in patients with multiple sclerosis (40 cases); brainstem encephalitis (1 case); Friedreich's ataxia (1 case); spastic paraparesis of unknown etiology (1 case). All patients were from the region of Abruzzo, Italy. Sera were all negative for anti-HTLV-I reactivity by the Western blotting (WB) analysis. DNAs from peripheral blood mononuclear cells were amplified using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique with primers specific for the HTLV-I gag, pol, and env proviral regions. HTLV-I sequences were amplified only in the patient with spastic paraparesis of unknown etiology. In this case, HTLV-I infection might have been related to blood transfusions received 2 years prior to the onset of the neurologic symptoms. Members of the patient's family were negative for HTLV-I by PCR and WB. These data indicate that HTLV-I associated myelopathy is present also in Italy, but fail to substantiate an association of HTLV-I with multiple sclerosis.
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- D French
- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Rest EB, Horn TD. Immunophenotypic analysis of benign and malignant cutaneous lymphoid infiltrates. Clin Dermatol 1991; 9:261-72. [PMID: 1660786 DOI: 10.1016/0738-081x(91)90016-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- E B Rest
- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Ranki A, Niemi KM, Nieminen P, Krohn K. Antibodies against retroviral core proteins in relation to disease outcome in patients with mycosis fungoides. Arch Dermatol Res 1990; 282:532-8. [PMID: 2082836 DOI: 10.1007/bf00371949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have studied the relationship of antibodies reacting with human retroviral core proteins to the disease outcome in Finnish mycosis fungoides (MF) patients in a prospective manner. Antibodies recognizing human T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus I (HTLV-I) or human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) core proteins were found in 12 of 14 MF patients as shown by the Western blot method. The antibody reactivities showed three patterns: three patients had antibodies cross-reacting with the gag-encoded core proteins of both HTLV-I and HIV-1; seven patients showed antibodies reacting with HTLV-I core proteins only; and the sera of two patients reacted with HIV p24 core protein only. When following the clinical course of these patients, we found that the three patients with antibodies cross-reacting with both viruses had the most fulminant clinical course, and the overall duration of MF was, on average, 4 years less than in the rest of the patients. None of the patients, however, became leukaemic, or showed any other features suggestive of acute T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATL). Two patients, who did not show anti-retroviral antibodies during the follow-up, had a stable disease with plaque-type skin lesions. Histological or immunohistological typing of the skin infiltrates did not correlate with the disease outcome or the above antibody patterns. Our results thus raise the possibility that an unknown retrovirus, immunologically related to the known human retroviruses, may be aetiologically linked to MF.
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- A Ranki
- Department of Dermatology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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Hoppe RT, Wood GS, Abel EA. Mycosis fungoides and the Sézary syndrome: pathology, staging, and treatment. Curr Probl Cancer 1990; 14:293-371. [PMID: 2245651 DOI: 10.1016/0147-0272(90)90018-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Mycosis fungoides and the Sézary syndrome are forms of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Mycosis fungoides is an uncommon disease: only about 500 new cases are diagnosed in the United States annually. The median age of onset is 55 years and there is a 2:1 male predominance. The etiology of mycosis fungoides is unknown. Although occupational exposures have been implicated, case control studies fail to support this hypothesis. Mycosis fungoides is typified by cutaneous plaques which may evolve into tumors over the course of time. It is often preceded by a lengthy pre-mycotic phase prior to the time of definitive diagnosis. In its earliest diagnostic phase, there may only be slightly scaling patches with a limited distribution. Indurated lesions evolve into plaques, which may become more generalized in their distribution. As the severity of skin involvement increases, there is an increasing likelihood of spread to extracutaneous sites. The pathology of this disease is marked by involvement of the epidermis (Pautrier microabscesses). Immunologic studies characterize these cells as belonging to the helper T-cell subset. Genotypic analysis demonstrates monoclonal rearrangements of the T-cell receptors of the infiltrating cells. The staging system for mycosis fungoides considers the extent of skin involvement, presence of lymph node or visceral disease, and detection of abnormal cells in the peripheral blood. Patients with disease limited to the skin (90% of newly diagnosed cases) are treated best with topical or cutaneous therapies. Common modalities include psoralen photochemotherapy (PUVA), topical chemotherapy (nitrogen mustard) and total skin electron beam therapy. Both topical nitrogen mustard and electron beam therapy have good initial response rates (73% and 100%) and may achieve long-term disease-free survival, especially in patients with initially limited disease. Even if the response is incomplete or relapse occurs, substantial and very important palliation is generally achieved with topical therapy. Recurrent or resistant cutaneous disease will require the use of sequential topical treatment. The median survival time of patients who present with disease limited to the skin is greater than 10 years, and many deaths in this group are from intercurrent causes, especially in patients with limited or generalized plaque disease. If cutaneous tumors are present, the majority of these patients will eventually die from disease-related causes. The prognosis of patients who develop extracutaneous disease is exceedingly poor (median survival time, approximately 1 year).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- R T Hoppe
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, California
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Henni T, Divine M, Gaulard P, Haioun C, Duc Dodon M, Gourdin MF, Desforges L, Goossens M, Reyes F, Farcet JP. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification demonstrates the absence of human T-cell lymphotrophic virus (HTLV)-I specific pol sequences in peripheral T-cell lymphomas. J Clin Immunol 1990; 10:282-6. [PMID: 2266151 DOI: 10.1007/bf00916704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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HTLV-I seronegative patients in nonendemic areas have been described with T-cell proliferations the DNA of which contains specific HTLV-I viral sequences. We have looked for the presence of HTLV-I DNA sequences in 27 HTLV-I seronegative patients with peripheral T-cell lymphomas, distinct from adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), and four HTLV-I seropositive patients, three with an ATL and one with a tropical spastic paraparesis. Using HTLV-I pol specific primers, the genomic DNA from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and lymph nodes massively infiltrated by tumor cells was analyzed by the enzymatic gene amplification procedure. In contrast to the peripheral blood lymphocytes from the four HTLV-I seropositive patients, the peripheral T-cell lymphoma samples did not harbor HTLV-I pol sequences. The data show that the detection of HTLV-I nucleotide sequences by the polymerase chain reaction correlates with serologic analysis in this series.
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- T Henni
- INSERM U 91, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
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Kubonishi I, Ohtsuki Y, Sawada T, Yano S, Eguchi T, Iwahara Y, Takeuchi C, Miyoshi I. Type-C virus-like particles in a human B-cell lymphoma cell line. Am J Hematol 1990; 35:62-4. [PMID: 2167609 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830350114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Type-C virus-like particles (VLPs) were found in an Epstein-Barr (EB) virus-infected human B-cell lymphoma cell line, SP-50B, that was established from a patient with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The cell line continuously produces a small number of type-C VLPs, 150-200 nm in diameter, over 1 year. SP-50B cells were negative for HTLV-I and HTLV-II antigens and did not contain the HTLV-I genome. In addition, two EB virus nuclear antigen (EBNA)-positive B-cell lines, SP-54-Cord and SP-57-CLL, were established from human cord blood and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), respectively, by coculture with lethally irradiated SP-50B cells. Type-C VLPs with the same morphology were also found in both cell lines.
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- I Kubonishi
- Department of Medicine, Kochi Medical School, Japan
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Greer JP, Salhany KE, Cousar JB, Fields JP, King LE, Graber SE, Flexner JM, Stein RS, Collins RD. Clinical features associated with transformation of cerebriform T-cell lymphoma to a large cell process. Hematol Oncol 1990; 8:215-27. [PMID: 2210690 DOI: 10.1002/hon.2900080406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Some patients with cerebriform T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) undergo morphologic transformation to a large cell lymphoma. From a series of 113 patients with CTCL, 22 patients were identified with transformed CTCL. Stages of involvement at diagnosis were: I (seven), II (four), III (four), IV (seven). Nine patients had transformation at the initial diagnosis while the median time from diagnosis to transformation in the other 13 patients was 16 months (range: 3 months-6 years). Thirteen had transformation extracutaneously: lymph nodes (eight), central nervous system (two), and other extranodal sites (three). T cell markers were identified in all cases; of 15 cases with complete phenotypes, there were eight T-helper, three T-suppressor, and four aberrant T phenotypes. Serology for human T-leukemia virus-I (HTLV-I) was negative in eight patients tested. Median survival from diagnosis was 27 months compared to 53 months in 53 patients without transformation (p = 0.003). Despite combination chemotherapy in 12 patients following transformation, median survival after transformation was 12 months and only 7 months with extracutaneous disease. The likelihood of transformation could not be predicted by the initial histology, immunophenotype, or stage of disease.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Biopsy
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/pathology
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- HIV/isolation & purification
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/isolation & purification
- Humans
- Infant
- Lymph Nodes/pathology
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/immunology
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/mortality
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/pathology
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/therapy
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/mortality
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/therapy
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous/pathology
- Middle Aged
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- J P Greer
- Division of Hematology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232-2288
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Srivastava BI, Gonzales C, Loftus R, Fitzpatrick JE, Saxinger CW. Examination of HTLV-I ELISA-positive leukemia/lymphoma patients by western blotting gave mostly negative or indeterminate reaction. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1990; 6:617-27. [PMID: 2113820 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1990.6.617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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We used enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) and Western blotting, with "purified" human T-cell leukemia virus I (HTLV-I), to test for HTLV-I antibodies in 2583 plasma samples from 1053 leukemia/lymphoma patients treated at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, mostly between 1972 and 1984, and in 110 sera samples from normal healthy persons. The results demonstrate that ELISA and Western blot assay have limitations for HTLV-I antibody detection in an adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) nonendemic population. This conclusion is based on the many false reactives obtained by ELISA, and weak and indeterminate reaction (mostly p19 band) on Western blotting. All moderate to strongly HTLV-I ELISA-positive samples tested were negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies. Although 6/27 mycosis fungoides (MF) patients tested gave mostly a weak reaction on HTLV-I ELISA, 3/6 MF patients gave multiple bands (p19, p31, p36, gp46) on Western blotting and three samples from one patient gave the same p31, p36, and gp46 bands. This may suggest involvement of some HTLV-I-related virus in MF. These results also indicate that prevalence of HTLV-I infection in leukemia/lymphoma patients was rare, if it exists at all, since, despite the reactivity of some sera with HTLV-I-suspected antigens, none of the samples satisfy the USPHS criteria for positivity which is based on the detection of antibodies to gag protein p24 and to an env gene product gp46 or gp61/68.
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- B I Srivastava
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263
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