Seroindeterminate patterns and seroconversions to human T‐lymphotropic virus type I positivity in blood donors from Martinique, French West Indies

Abstract

These findings indicate that, although HTLV-I-seroindeterminate donors mainly are HTLV-I-noninfected, the rate of seroconversion in a repeat blood donor population from an endemic region must be taken into consideration. Moreover, the case of delayed seroconversion observed in this study suggests the difficulty of counseling seroindeterminate blood donors in endemic regions.