Table 1.

Test results of patients who received transfusions from donors who tested positive for human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus in Sweden

Blood donor	Year registered as blood donor	Transfusion recipients identified (No)	Transfusion recipients alive (No)	Test result (No)
				Positive	Negative	Not tested
1	1985	19	13	0	10	3
2	1991	10	5	1	2	2
3*	1966	21	1	0	1	0
4	1990	6	3	1	2	0
5	1993	5	3	0	3	0
6†	1994	0	0	0	0	NA
7‡	1970	34	16	1	14	1
Total		95	41	3	32	6

NA=not applicable.  

^*Only recipients younger than 65 and transfused after 1988 were traced.  

^†Discovered to be positive at time of first donation.  

^‡Discovered during pilot programme.