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HTLV-1 in rural Guinea-Bissau: prevalence, incidence and a continued association with HIV between 1990 and 2007

BACKGROUND: HTLV-1 is endemic in Guinea-Bissau, and the highest prevalence in the adult population (5.2%) was observed in a rural area, Caió, in 1990. HIV-1 and HIV-2 are both prevalent in this area as well. Cross-sectional associations have been reported for HTLV-1 with HIV infection, but the trend...

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Autores principales: van Tienen, Carla, van der Loeff, Maarten F Schim, Peterson, Ingrid, Cotten, Matthew, Holmgren, Birgitta, Andersson, Sören, Vincent, Tim, Sarge-Njie, Ramu, Rowland-Jones, Sarah, Jaye, Assan, Aaby, Peter, Whittle, Hilton
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20525366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-7-50