Table 5.
HTLV seroprevalence per 1000 births by risk group and type of district of birth for samples with known district of birth. Seroprevalence is an average of minimum and maximum estimates
| Mother's place of birth and ethnic status | Inner London
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Outer London
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Non-metropolitan districts
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| Positive* | Total | Prevalence | Positive* | Total | Prevalence | Positive* | Total | Prevalence | |||
| Born in Caribbean | 7 (1) | 460 | 16.3 | 7 | 374 | 18.7 | 1 | 80 | 12.5 | ||
| Born in other endemic region | 9 (1) | 2 362 | 4.0 | 1 | 1 096 | 0.9 | 1 | 149 | 6.7 | ||
| Black Caribbean, born in non-endemic region | 5 | 855 | 5.8 | 4 | 418 | 9.6 | 0 | 55 | 0 | ||
| Not black Caribbean, born in non-endemic region | 2 (1) | 14 752 | 0.17 | 1 | 11 982 | 0.08 | 1 (1) | 10 489 | 0.14 | ||
| Region of birth unknown or non-endemic, ethnic status not known | 6 | 11 149 | 0.54 | 15 (1) | 32 334 | 0.48 | 6 (1) | 39 104 | 0.17 | ||
| Total | 29 (3) | 29 578 | 1.03 | 28 (1) | 46 204 | 0.62 | 9 (2) | 49 877 | 0.20 | ||
*
Samples with indeterminate results in parentheses.