Table 1.

Comparison of proviral load in HTLV-I infected asymptomatic rabbits and human samples

Subjects	Number tested	Copies/ng DNA*	Ref.
Rabbits inoculated with
Naked K30p DNA	5	1.5
BH24 cell-free virus	19	2.8
Whole blood	29	3.7
pSV2 plasmid DNA	1	0
Human Asymptomatic carriers	200	1.8	[5]
	15	1.0†	[36]
	83	2.7†	[20]
	120	2.4	[12]
Human HAM/TSP	202	12.0	[5]
	15	8.8†	[36]
	9	19.9	[19]
Human ATLL	4	47.4†	[37]

* The mean or median (^†) of proviral loads are present as HTLV-I copy number / ng of genomic DNA prepared from PBMC. The rabbits samples were collected after 2 months post inoculation. All published data were converted to this format on the basis of one ng of genomic DNA corresponding to approximately 150 cells.