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Clinical and epidemiological aspects of HTLV-II infection in São Paulo, Brazil: presence of Tropical Spastic Paraparesis/HTLV-Associated Myelopathy (TSP/HAM) simile diagnosis in HIV-1-co-infected subjects Aspectos clínicos e epidemiológicos da infecção pelo vírus linfotrópico de células T humanas do tipo 2 (HTLV-II) em São Paulo, Brasil: presença de paraparesia espástica tropical/mielopatia associada ao HTLV em pacientes co-infectados pelo HIV-1

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2006
In this study, the epidemiological and clinical features observed in solely HTLV-II-infected individuals were compared to those in patients co-infected with HIV-1.
Maria Paulina Posada-Vergara, Patrícia Montanheiro, Ligia M.I. Fukumori, Francisco Bonasser, Alberto José da Silva Duarte, Augusto Cesar Penalva de Oliveira, Jorge Casseb   +6 more
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Development and Validation of a Rapid Screening Test for HTLV-I IgG Antibodies

Viruses, 2022
Initial diagnosis of human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infections is mainly based by detecting antibodies in plasma or serum using laboratory-based methods.
Bobby Brooke Herrera, Rafaela Mayoral, Carlos Brites   +2 more
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Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2003
Background HTLV-I infection has been linked to lung pathology and HTLV-II has been associated with an increased incidence of pneumonia and acute bronchitis. However it is unknown whether HTLV-I or -II infection alters pulmonary function.
Garratty George, Smith James W, Ownby Helen E, Murphy Edward L, Hutching Sheila T, Wu Ying, Ameti Dannie I   +6 more
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Relative frequency of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus I/II in HIV/AIDS patients

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2014
Background: Human T-cell lymphotropic virus HTLV-I/II is a retrovirus that has been associated with different diseases. HTLV-I/II routes of transmissions are exposure to contaminated blood, blood transfusion, needle sharing, breast feeding, and sexual ...
Mohsen Meidani, Nooshin Ahmadi, Bahareh Jamali, Zahra Askarian   +3 more
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Endemic HTLV in Japan and South America with special reference to mongoloid dispersal from Asia to the Andes

Estudios Atacameños, 1998
Se ha estimado que existe 1,2 millones de portadores del virus humano de la leucemia T tipo I (HTLV I) en todo el Japón, donde la incidencia de leucemia a linfocitos T del adulto es la más alta del mundo.
Kazuo Tajima, Shunro Sonoda, Luis Cartier, Vladimir Zaninovic, Lautaro Núñez Atencio, Luis Hurtado Gómez, Sonia Guillén, José Dipierri, Toshiro Takezaki, Toshinobu Fujiyoshi, Satoshi Horai   +10 more
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SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza, Arun Meyyazhagan, Eliseo Picchi, Gustavo Ribas, Ingrid Faber, Ryosuke Miyamoto, Preethi Basavaraju, Paolo Eusebi, Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla, Mario Stasi, Fabrizio Gaudiello, Francesco Patti, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Marcondes Cavalcante França Jr, José Luiz Pedroso, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Peter Henry St George‐Hyslop, Toshitaka Kawarai, Antonio Orlacchio   +19 more
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Glycoengineered Recombinant Alpha1‐Antitrypsin Results in Comparable In Vitro and In Vivo Activities to Human Plasma‐Derived Protein

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alpha‐1‐antitrypsin (A1AT) is a multifunctional, clinically important, high‐value therapeutic glycoprotein that can be used for the treatment of many diseases, such as A1AT deficiency, diabetes, graft‐versus‐host disease, cystic fibrosis, and various viral infections. Currently, the only U.S. food and drug administration‐approved treatment for
Frances Rocamora, Chen‐Lin Hsieh, Sanne Schoffelen, Johnny Arnsdorf, Eric A. Toth, Abdul S. Yunus, Thomas E. Cleveland IV, Sara Petersen Bjørn, Mina Ying Min Wu, Noel G. McElvaney, Bjørn Gunnar Rude Voldborg, Thomas R. Fuerst, Nathan E. Lewis   +12 more
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RNA‐centric world of retroviruses: unravelling the molecular strategies of genomic RNA packaging

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retroviruses constitute a unique group of RNA viruses that have profoundly influenced both evolutionary trajectories and biomedical research. Their ability to reverse transcribe and integrate into host genomes has shaped genomic architecture across species and contributed to our understanding of oncogenes, gene regulation, and RNA biology ...
Mohammad Abdullah Jehad, Suresha G. Prabhu, Lizna M. Ali, Vineeta N. Pillai, Farah Mustafa, Tahir A. Rizvi   +5 more
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Experiencing 50 Years of Synergistic Development in Structural Biology and Enzymology

Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, EarlyView.
Picture of Sunney Chan with Academia Sinica (AS) President James C. Liao and three Vice Presidents: Shin‐Kun Peng (left one), Tang K. Tang (right one), and Mei‐Yin Chou (right 2), taken at the annual Chinese New Year's Banquet of AS, February 7, 2025. This was likely Sunney's last appearance in formal activities of AS.
Ming‐Daw Tsai
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The Prevalence and Significance of HTLV-I/II Seroindeterminate Western Blot Patterns

Viruses, 2011
Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infects an estimated 15–20 million persons worldwide. A number of diseases have been associated with the virus including adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), HTLV-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM ...
Yoshimi Akahata, Anna Abrams, Steven Jacobson   +2 more
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