Zoonotic Transmission of Two New Strains of Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type 4 in Hunters Bitten by a Gorilla in Central Africa

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 800-803

  Richard, Leá ^a,b,c   Mouinga Ondémé, Augustin ^d   Betsem, Edouard ^a,b,e,g   Filippone, Claudia ^a,b,h   Nerrienet, Eric ^f,i   Kazanji, Mirdad ^d,h   Gessain, Antoine ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Institut Pasteur   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^f CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^g Laboratoire Mixte International de Vaccinologie   (Burkina Faso)

^h INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

ⁱ INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

Central Africa; emergence; gorilla; HTLV 4; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL HUNTING; BITE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 4; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ZOONOSIS; AGED; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; BLOOD; DELTARETROVIRUS; DELTARETROVIRUS INFECTION; GABON; GENETICS; GORILLA GORILLA; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS DNA;

AGED; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; DELTARETROVIRUS; DELTARETROVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; GABON; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84995376375     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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