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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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Trends in Mortality After the Roll‐Out of Directly Acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C in England Using Linked Surveillance Data

Journal of Viral Hepatitis, Volume 33, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Directly acting antivirals (DAAs) revolutionised hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, offering higher cure rates. We aimed to quantify life expectancy (LE) differences between treated and untreated individuals diagnosed with HCV and assess the contributions of age and causes of death to these differences.
David Etoori, Ruth Simmons, Annabel Powell, Monica Desai, Paul Trembling, Caroline Sabin, William Rosenberg   +6 more
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Заболевания, ассоциированные с Т-лимфотропным вирусом типа 1 человека (HTLV-1)

Microbiology Independent Research Journal
ВВЕДЕНИЕ: Т-лимфотропный вирус типа 1 человека (HTLV-1) относится к семейству Retroviridae (род Deltaretrovirus ) и напрямую участвует в канцерогенезе.
Л. В. Радыгина, Л. В. Мочалова   +1 more
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HIGHLIGHTS ON DISTINCTIVE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF HTLV TAX PROTEINS.

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013
Human T-cell Leukemia Viruses (HTLVs) are complex human retroviruses of the Deltaretrovirus genus. Four types have been identified thus far, with HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 much more prevalent than HTLV-3 or -4 .
Maria Grazia Romanelli, Erica eDiani, Elisa eBergamo, Claudio eCasoli, Vincenzo eCiminale, Françoise eBex, Umberto eBertazzoni   +6 more
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Confirming the presence of HTLV-1 infection and the absence of HTLV-2 in blood donors from Arequipa, Peru Confirmação da presença de infecção por HTLV-1 e ausência de infecção por HTLV-2 em doadores de sangue de Arequipa, Peru

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2009
Epidemiological studies conducted in Peru disclosed HTLV-1 to be prevalent in different ethnic groups, and found HTLV-2 in some Amazonian Indians and in men who have sex with men.
Nadia Carmela Santos Quispe, Edwin Bengoa Feria, Elizabeth de los Santos-Fortuna, Adele Caterino-de-Araujo   +3 more
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Telomere Length, Proviral Load and Neurologic Impairment in HTLV-1 and HTLV-2-Infected Subjects

Viruses, 2016
Short or damaged telomeres have been implicated in degenerative conditions. We hypothesized that analysis of telomere length (TL) in human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection and HTLV-associated neuropathy might provide clues to the etiology of ...
Benjamin Usadi, Roberta Bruhn, Jue Lin, Tzong-Hae Lee, Elizabeth Blackburn, Edward L. Murphy   +5 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

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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Hepatitis C viral load in HCV-monoinfected and HCV/HIV-1-, HCV/HTLV-1/-2-, and HCV/HIV/HTLV-1/-2-co-infected patients from São Paulo, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Co-infections of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and either human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) or type 2 (HTLV-2) have been described as having an impact on HCV viremia and subsequent disease progression.
Fabiana Aparecida Alves, Karoline Rodrigues Campos, Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos, Regina Célia Moreira, Adele Caterino-de-Araujo   +4 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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Evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold for the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in HTLV-1-Infected Patients

Viruses
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is associated with an increased risk of tuberculosis (TB). This study aimed to evaluate the performance of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT) test for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection in ...
Luana Leandro Gois, Natália Barbosa Carvalho, Fred Luciano Neves Santos, Carlos Gustavo Regis-Silva, Thainá Gonçalves Tolentino Figueiredo, Bernardo Galvão-Castro, Edgar Marcelino Carvalho, Maria Fernanda Rios Grassi   +7 more
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