HTLV-3/STLV-3 and HTLV-4 viruses: Discovery, epidemiology, serology and molecular aspects

Viruses

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1074-1090

  Mahieux, Renaud ^a,b,c   Gessain, Antoine ^d  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFECTIOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c University Lyon i   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Emerging virus; HTLV 3; HTLV 4; Interspecies transmission; Retrovirus; STLV 3; Tax; Transformation

Indexed keywords

TAX PROTEIN;

CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; ENVELOPE GENE; GROUP SPECIFIC ANTIGEN GENE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; HUMAN T LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3; HUMAN T LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 4; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PDZ DOMAIN; PRO GENE; RETROVIRUS; REV GENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TAX GENE; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; DELTARETROVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENE PRODUCTS, TAX; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-CELL LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE 4; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; SIMIAE; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS - AGM; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3;

EID: 79960829335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v3071074     Document Type: Review

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