Prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus 1/2 in Nigeria’s capital territory and meta-analysis of Nigerian studies [PDF]
SAGE Open Medicine, 2019 Objectives: This study was aimed at determining human T-lymphotropic virus 1/2 prevalence among apparently healthy, immunocompromised and haematologic malignant individuals in Nigeria’s capital, as well as meta-analysis of all Nigerian studies until date.
Nneoma Confidence JeanStephanie Anyanwu +5 more
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Provirus Mutations of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) in HIV-1-Coinfected Individuals [PDF]
mSphere, 2020 Provirus mutations of human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1), mostly the lack of the 5′ long terminal repeat (LTR) genomic region, have been described and associated with severe adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), non-sense point mutations with low ...
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017 The present study evaluated several techniques currently available (commercial kits and in-house assays) for diagnosing human T lymphotropic viruses types 1 and 2 in two groups of patients enrolled at HIV/AIDS specialized care services in São Paulo ...
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Epitope-based universal vaccine for Human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) was the first oncogenic human retrovirus identified in humans which infects at least 10-15 million people worldwide. Large HTLV-1 endemic areas exist in Southern Japan, the Caribbean, Central and South America,
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Origin of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 in Rural Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (STLV-1) strains occasionally infect humans. However, the frequency of such infections is unknown. We show that direct transmission of STLV-1 from nonhuman primates to humans may be responsible for a substantial ...
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Human T-Lymphotropic Virus-1–Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis Is Associated With Sexual Dysfunction in Infected Women of Reproductive Age [PDF]
Sexual Medicine, 2018 Introduction: Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-1–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a neurological disorder that mostly affects women.
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Human T Lymphotropic virus-1 associated gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in Peru
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011 We report a 72-year-old patient with chronic diarrhoea and histologic evidence of gastrointestinal histoplasmosis. He had no history of HIV or of taking immunosuppressive drugs.
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Self-Flagellation as Possible Route of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-1 Transmission
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 We report human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 infection associated with self-flagellation in 10 UK residents. These persons were heterosexual men from Pakistan, India, and Iraq.
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Concluding Remarks for Special Issue HTLV-HIV Co-Infections
Viruses, 2023 During the early 1980s, the first 3 human retroviruses were identified: human T-lymphotropic virus 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [...]
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Physiotherapy for human T-lymphotropic virus 1-associated myelopathy: review of the literature and future perspectives. [PDF]
J Multidiscip Healthc, 2015 Katia N Sá,1 Maíra C Macêdo,1 Rosana P Andrade,2 Selena D Mendes,1 José V Martins,3 Abrahão F Baptista1,4 1Neuromusculoskeletal Research Group, Bahian School of Medicine and Human Health, Salvador, Brazil; 2Edgard Santos
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