A Novel Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type 1c Molecular Variant in an Indigenous Individual from New Caledonia, Melanesia.

• Main Authors: Olivier Cassar (Author), Françoise Charavay (Author), Frédéric Touzain (Author), Patricia Jeannin (Author), Jean-Paul Grangeon (Author), Sylvie Laumond (Author), Eliane Chungue (Author), Paul M V Martin (Author), Antoine Gessain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is endemic among people of Melanesian descent in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and in Indigenous populations from Central Australia. Molecular studies revealed that these Australo-Melanesian strains constitute the highly divergen...