The recent advances of HAM/TSP research

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1200-1202

  Osame, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HAM; HAM TSP; HTLV I

Indexed keywords

BLOOD DONOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC;

EID: 0033509397     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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