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Respiratory and Urinary Tract Infections, Arthritis, and Asthma Associated with HTLV-I and HTLV-II Infection

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
Human T-lymphotropic virus types I and II (HTLV-I and -II) cause myelopathy; HTLV-I, but not HTLV-II, causes adult T-cell leukemia. Whether HTLV-II is associated with other diseases is unknown.
Edward L. Murphy, Baoguang Wang, Ronald A. Sacher, Joy Fridey, James W. Smith, Catharie C. Nass, Bruce Newman, Helen E. Ownby, George Garratty, Sheila T. Hutching, George B. Schreiber   +10 more
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Prevalence of HTLV-I and HTLV-II infections among HIV-1-infected asymptomatic individuals in São Paulo, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1997
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1)-infected subjects with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are often infected with multiple pathogens. In particular, HTLV-I and HTLV-II infections have been found more frequently in AIDS patients than in ...
Jorge CASSEB, Adele CATERINO-DE ARAUJO, Marisa A. HONG, Simone SALOMÃO, Dana GALLO, R. Michael HENDRY, Alberto J.S. DUARTE   +6 more
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and HTLV I-II in a Blood Bank in Medellín, Colombia, 2019–2022

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
The objective of this research was to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and HTLV I-II in donors from a blood bank in Medellin, Colombia, 2019–2022. A cross-sectional analytical study was carried out with three
Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias, Luis Felipe Higuita-Gutiérrez   +1 more
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A novel high-performance rapid screening test for the detection of total HTLV-I and HTLV-II antibodies in HTLV-I/II infected patients

BMC Infectious Diseases
Rapid diagnosis of human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type-I and -II infections are essential for timely and cost-effective disease interventions.
Lay Sin Teoh, Vincent Guiraud, Haris Ong, Yang Du, Zhihai Zhao, Agnès Gautheret-Dejean, Na Xu   +6 more
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Molecular characterization of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Viruses 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) in samples from blood donation candidates in the state of Pará, Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
The Human T-Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV) is a retrovirus belonging to the Retroviridae family and the Deltaretrovirus genus, which has a tropism for T lymphocytes.
Carolina Alcântara Maneschy, Patricia Santos Lobo, Carlos Eduardo de Melo Amaral, Katarine Antonia dos Santos Barile, Jairo Augusto Americo de Castro, Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte Silvestre, Felipe Bonfim Freitas, Luana Silva Soares, Sylvia Fátima Santos Guerra   +8 more
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Increased All-Cause and Cancer Mortality in HTLV-II Infection [PDF]

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2010
Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-I and HTLV-II cause chronic human retroviral infections, but few studies have examined the impact of either virus on survival among otherwise healthy individuals. The authors analyzed all-cause and cancer mortality in a prospective cohort of 155 HTLV-I, 387 HTLV-II, and 799 seronegative subjects.Vital status was ...
Biswas, Hope H, Kaidarova, Zhanna, Garratty, George, Gibble, Joan W, Newman, Bruce H, Smith, James W, Ziman, Alyssa, Fridey, Joy L, Sacher, Ronald A, Murphy, Edward L   +9 more
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Serological Evidence of HTLV-I and HTLV-II Coinfections in HIV-1 Positive Patients in Belém, State of Pará, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1998
The occurrence of HTLV-I/II and HIV-1 coinfections have been shown to be frequent, probably in consequence of their similar modes of transmission. This paper presents the prevalence of coinfection of HTLV among HIV-1 infected and AIDS patients in Belém ...
Vallinoto ACR, Azevedo VN, Santos DEM, Caniceiro S, Mesquita FCL, Hall WW, Ishak MOG, Ishak R   +7 more
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High Prevalence and Risk Factors for Infection with Human T-Lymphotropic Viruses 1 and 2 in the Municipality of Ananindeua, Pará, Northern Brazil [PDF]

Viruses
This descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study evaluated HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 infections in Ananindeua, northern Brazil. Individuals were screened for anti-HTLV-1/2 using ELISA (Murex HTLV-I + II, DiaSorin).
Dara da Costa Soares, Felipe Teixeira Lopes, Gabriel dos Santos Pereira Neto, Luciana Cristina Coelho Pantoja Santos, Aline Cecy Rocha Lima, Bruno Sarmento Botelho, Isabella Nogueira Abreu, Felipe Bonfim Freitas, Ricardo Ishak, Izaura Maria Vieira Cayres Vallinoto, Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto   +10 more
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Restriction factors in human retrovirus infections and the unprecedented case of CIITA as link of intrinsic and adaptive immunity against HTLV-1

Retrovirology, 2019
Background Immunity against pathogens evolved through complex mechanisms that only for sake of simplicity are defined as innate immunity and adaptive immunity. Indeed innate and adaptive immunity are strongly intertwined each other during evolution.
Greta Forlani, Mariam Shallak, Elise Ramia, Alessandra Tedeschi, Roberto S. Accolla   +4 more
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Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and associated factors in the inmate population of the Chachapoyas correctional center, Peru [PDF]

Archives of Public Health
Background The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as HIV, syphilis, viral hepatitis, and human T-lymphotropic virus types I and II (HTLV I-II) among inmates at the Chachapoyas Correctional ...
Victor Juan Vera-Ponce, Luis M. Rojas, Christian J. Campos, Roxana Cubas, Jhony A De LaCruz-Vargas, Stella M. Chenet, Rafael Tapia-Limonchi   +6 more
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