Use of a generic polymerase chain reaction assay detecting human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) types I, II and divergent simian strains in the evaluation of individuals with indeterminate HTLV serology

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Vandamme, Anne Mieke ^a   Van Laethem, Kristel ^a   Liu, Hsin Fu ^a   Van Brussel, Marianne ^a   Delaporte, Eric ^b   De Castro Costa, Carlos Mauricio ^c   Fleischer, Carola ^d   Taylor, Graham ^e   Bertazzoni, Umberto ^f   Desmyter, Jan ^a   Goubau, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

diagnostics; nested PCR; PTLV

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION;

ANIMALS; DELTARETROVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HTLV; HTLV II; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; PRIMATES; SIMIAE; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3;

EID: 17144458611     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199705)52:1<1::AID-JMV1>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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