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High prevalence of bronchiectasis is linked to HTLV-1-associated inflammatory disease. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), a retrovirus, is the causative agent of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATLL).
A Gessain, A Gessain, AH Smith, AM Vine, CR Bangham, D Weycker, E Gotuzzo, EL Murphy, F Okada, Graham P Taylor, H Kawai, H Merle, H Nakamura, IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk to Humans, J Crofton, JR Orland, K Nishioka, L Einsiedel, L Einsiedel, L Einsiedel, L LaGrenade, M Nagai, M Nakagawa, M Osame, M Sugimoto, M Sugimoto, MA Demontis, MG Flynn, OS Morgan, PJ McShane, S Mita, S Mori, Shohreh Honarbakhsh, T Arakaki, T Kondo, T Matsuda, T Yamashiro, W Matsuyama   +37 more
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A Fashi Lymphoproliferative Phenotype Reveals Non-Apoptotic Fas Signaling in HTLV-1-Associated Neuroinflammation [PDF]

, 2017
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-1 was the first human retrovirus to be associated to cancer, namely adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), but its pathogenesis remains enigmatic, since only a minority of infected individuals develops either ATL or the ...
Anne Mieke Vandamme, Bernardo Galvão-Castro, Carolina Alvarez, Daniele Decanine, David Brassat, Douglas F. Nixon, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Fabio E. Leal, Gilvaneia Silva-Santos, Giovanni López, Johan Van Weyenbergh, Jurgen Vercauteren, Michael Talledo, Ramon Kruschewsky, Ricardo Khouri, Roland Liblau, Saul V. Schnitman, Soraya Maria Menezes, Tim Dierckx   +18 more
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Caracterização molecular do HTLV-1 em pacientes com paraparesia espástica tropical/mielopatia associada ao HTLV-1 em Belém, Pará Molecular characterization of HTLV-1 among patients with tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy in Belém, Pará

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2006
O presente estudo avaliou a ocorrência da infecção pelo HTLV-1 e seus subtipos em amostras de sangue de pacientes com diagnóstico clínico de paraparesia espástica tropical/mielopatia associada ao Htlv-1.
Lucinda A. Souza, Ivina G.L. Lopes, Eduardo Leitão Maia, Vânia N. Azevedo, Luiz Fernando A. Machado, Marluísa O.G. Ishak, Ricardo Ishak, Antonio Carlos R. Vallinoto   +7 more
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Syringohydromyelia or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis: a diagnostic challenge (case report) [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1999
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) associated myelopathy / tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is the most common chronic myelopathy in Brazil.
ABELARDO DE QUEIROZ-CAMPOS ARAÚJO, ANA CLAÚDIA CELESTINO BEZERRA LEITE, ANDRÉ LUIZ DOS ANJOS DE OLIVEIRA, CRISTIANE RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA AFONSO, JULIANA PIES   +4 more
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HTLV-1 and HIV-1 co-infection: A case report and review of the literature

IDCases, 2016
HTLV type 1 and 2 are both involved in actively spreading epidemics, affecting over 15 million people worldwide. HTLV-1 has been described as the more clinically significant one, being associated with diseases such as adult T-cell leukemia and tropical ...
Carmen Isache, Michael Sands, Nilmarie Guzman, Danisha Figueroa   +3 more
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Aquaporin-4 Antibodies Are Not Related to HTLV-1\ud Associated Myelopathy [PDF]

, 2012
Introduction: The seroprevalence of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is very high among Brazilians (,1:200).\ud HTLV-1 associated myelopathy or tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is the most common neurological complication of\ud HTLV-1 ...
Brandão, Carlos Otávio, Casseb, Jorge Simão do Rosário, Damasceno, Alfredo, Damasceno, Benito P., Farias, Alessandro S., Jarius, Sven, Longhini, Ana Leda F., Moraes, Adriel S., Oliveira, Augusto C. Penalva de, Santos, Leonilda M. B., von Gleh, Felipe, Wandinger, Klaus-Peter, Wildemann, Brigitte   +12 more
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Exacerbated inflammatory cellular immune response characteristics of HAM/TSP is observed in a large proportion of HTLV-I asymptomatic carriers [PDF]

, 2004
Background A small fraction of Human T cell Leukemia Virus type-1 (HTLV-I) infected subjects develop a severe form of myelopathy. It has been established that patients with HTLV-I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) show an ...
Silvane Braga Santos, Aurélia Fonseca Porto, André Luiz Muniz, Amélia Ribeiro de Jesus, Elza Magalhães, Ailton Melo, Walderez O Dutra, Kenneth J Gollob, Edgar M Carvalho, B Galvao-Castro, ED Moreira Jr, T Uchiyama, BJ Poiesz, A Gessain, M Osame, H Prince, R Kubota, N Nishimoto, M Osame, S Jacobson, S Jacobson, GP Taylor, S Izumo, JF Kurtzke, A Kramer, M Nagai, E Hanon, N Azimi, R Kubota, M Nagai, EM Carvalho, F Umehara, WE Biddison, JH Richardson, M Popovic, JA Sakai, M Azuma, MP Weekes, JF Giguere, WO Dutra   +39 more
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HTLV-I negative tropical spastic paraparesis: a scientific challenge Paraparesia espástica tropical HTLV-I negativa: um desafio científico

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2001
We reviewed the historical, clinical and etiological aspects of the progressive chronic spastic myelopathies of unknown etiology, disserting on the clinical similarities between HTLV-I seropositive and seronegative tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), as ...
Carlos Mauricio De Castro-Costa, Herwig Carton, Terezinha J. T. Santos   +2 more
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INTERFERON BETA-1A TREATMENT IN HTLV-1-ASSOCIATED MYELOPATHY/TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS: A CASE REPORT

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2014
Here a young patient (< 21 years of age) with a history of infective dermatitis is described. The patient was diagnosed with myelopathy associated with HTLV-1/tropical spastic paraparesis and treated with interferon beta-1a.
Graça Maria de Castro Viana, Marcos Antonio Custódio Neto da Silva, Victor Lima Souza, Natália Barbosa da Silva Lopes, Diego Luz Felipe da Silva, Maria do Desterro Soares Brandão Nascimento   +5 more
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Telomere Length, Proviral Load and Neurologic Impairment in HTLV-1 and HTLV-2-Infected Subjects. [PDF]

, 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 ...
Blackburn, Elizabeth, Bruhn, Roberta, Lee, Tzong-Hae, Lin, Jue, Murphy, Edward L, Usadi, Benjamin   +5 more
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