Prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 among blood donors from Mashhad, Iran

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2593-2595

  Abbaszadegan, Mohammad Reza ^a   Gholamin, Mehran ^a   Tabatabaee, Abbas ^c   Farid, Reza ^b   Houshmand, Massoud ^d   Abbaszadegan, Morteza ^e  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; WESTERN BLOTTING;

HTLV; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0038180525     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.6.2593-2595.2003     Document Type: Article

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