Prevalence and phylogenetic analysis of HTLV-I isolates in Cameroon, including those of the Baka Pygmy

Japanese Journal of Cancer Research

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 619-624

  Mboudjeka, Innocent ^a,b   Zekeng, Leopold ^b   Yamashita, Masahiro ^a   Takehisa, Jun ^a   Ido, Eiji ^a   Miura, Tomoyuki ^a   Ohkura, Sadayuki ^a   Ikeda, Mikio ^c   Kaptue, Lazare ^b   Hayami, Masanori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University Hospitals   (Cameroon)

^c FUJIREBIO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central Africa; HTLV I; Long terminal repeats; Phylogenetic analysis; Pygmy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; DWARFISM; ENVELOPE GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; T CELL LEUKEMIA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030763286     PISSN: 09105050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1997.tb00427.x     Document Type: Article

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