Editorial commentary: Outcomes of early life exposure to human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 542-543

  Hanchard, Barrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1 ASSOCIATED MYELOPATHY; INFECTION RISK; MOTHER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; T CELL LEUKEMIA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DERMATITIS; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOTE; VIROLOGY;

CHILD; DERMATITIS; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 23244450247     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432066     Document Type: Editorial

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