Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1c subtype proviral loads, chronic lung disease and survival in a prospective cohort of Indigenous Australians.

• Main Authors: Lloyd Einsiedel (Author), Hai Pham (Author), Kim Wilson (Author), Rebecca Walley (Author), Jocelyn Turpin (Author), Charles Bangham (Author), Antoine Gessain (Author), Richard J Woodman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1c subtype (HTLV-1c) is highly endemic to central Australia where the most frequent complication of HTLV-1 infection in Indigenous Australians is bronchiectasis. We carried out a prospective study to quantify the prognosis of HTLV-1c infection and chronic lung dis...