The close relationship between South African and Latin American HTLV type 1 strains corroborated in a molecular epidemiological study of the HTLV type 1 isolates from a blood donor cohort

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-507

  Mota, Augusto Cesar Andrade ^a   Van Dooren, Sonia ^b   Fernandes, Flora Maria De Campos ^a,c   Pereira, Sergio Araujo ^c   Queiroz, Artur Trancoso Lopo ^a   Gallazzi, Viviana Olavarria ^c   Vandamme, Anne Mieke ^b   Galvão Castro, Bernardo ^a,c   Alcantara Jr , Luiz Carlos ^a,c  

^a ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA   (Brazil)

^b REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD DONOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HYPOTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

BLOOD DONORS; BRAZIL; COHORT STUDIES; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 34247893866     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2006.0203     Document Type: Article

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