High prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) in immigrant male-to-female transsexual sex workers with HIV-1 infection

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-215

  Zehender, Gianguglielmo ^a,b   Colasante, Chiara ^a   De Maddalena, Chiara ^a   Bernini, Flavia ^a   Savasi, Valeria ^b   Persico, Tiziana ^b   Merli, Stefania ^b   Ridolfo, Annalisa ^a   Santambrogio, Sara ^a   Moroni, Mauro ^a   Galli, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

HTLV 2; Migrants; Molecular epidemiology; Phylogenetic analysis; Sexual transmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; IMMIGRANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIGRANT WORKER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

ADULT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSSEXUALISM;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2;

EID: 4344613915     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20165     Document Type: Article

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