Molecular Epidemiology of Endemic Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 in a Rural Community in Guinea-Bissau

BACKGROUND: Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) infection causes lethal adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and severely debilitating HTLV-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in up to 5% of infected adults. HTLV-1 is endemic in parts of Africa and the highest prevalence in We...

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Autores principales: van Tienen, Carla, de Silva, Thushan I., Alcantara, Luiz Carlos Junior, Onyango, Clayton O., Jarju, Sheikh, Gonçalves, Nato, Vincent, Tim, Aaby, Peter, Whittle, Hilton, Schim van der Loeff, Maarten, Cotten, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22720106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001690

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22720106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001690

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