Demographic and familial characteristics of HTLV-I infection among an isolated, highly endemic population of African origin in French Guiana

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 331-336

  Plancoulaine, Sabine ^a   Buigues, René Pierre ^b   Murphy, Edward L ^a,c   Van Beveren, Monique ^a   Pouliquen, Jean François ^b   Joubert, Michel ^d   Rémy, Franck ^d   Tuppin, Philippe ^a   Tortevoye, Patricia ^a   De Thé, Guy ^a   Moreau, Jean Paul ^b   Gessain, Antoine ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; HTLV-I ANTIBODIES; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0031775815     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980504)76:3<331::AID-IJC8>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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