Failure to detect HTLV type 1 DNA from HTLV type 1-seronegative patients with chronic progressive spastic paraparesis in Kagoshima

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1089-1090

  Nagai, Masahiro ^a   Utsunomiya, Takanori ^a   Takenouchi, Norihiro ^a   Izumo, Shuji ^a   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HTLV-I ANTIBODIES; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036389714     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/08892220260235443     Document Type: Letter

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