Molecular epidemiology of endemic human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 in a rural community in Guinea-Bissau.

• Main Authors: Carla van Tienen (Author), Thushan I de Silva (Author), Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara (Author), Clayton O Onyango (Author), Sheikh Jarju (Author), Nato Gonçalves (Author), Tim Vincent (Author), Peter Aaby (Author), Hilton Whittle (Author), Maarten Schim van der Loeff (Author), Matthew Cotten (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) infection causes lethal adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and severely debilitating HTLV-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in up to 5% of infected adults. HTLV-1 is endemic in parts of Africa and the highest prevalence in West Africa (5...