Proposal for diagnostic criteria of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I- associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM)

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 931-935

  De Castro Costa, Carlos M ^a   Araújo, Abelardo Q C ^b   Barreto, Márcio M ^c   Takayanagui, Osvaldo M ^d   Sohler, Marzia P ^b   Da Silva, Eduardo L M ^e   De Paula, Sônia M B ^e   Ishak, Ricardo ^e   Ribas, João G R ^f   Rovirosa, Luis C ^g   Carton, Herwig ^h   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ⁱ   Hall, William W ^j   Montano, Silvia ^k   Murphy, Edward L ^l   Oger, Joel ^m   Remondegui, Carlos ⁿ   Taylor, Graham P ^o  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^f Unidade de Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^k California   (Peru)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁿ Hospital Zonal General Agudos San Roque   (Argentina)

^o IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; VIRUS DETECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; DELTARETROVIRUS ANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC;

EID: 33750741681     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2006.22.931     Document Type: Review

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