High prevalence of HTLV-1 infection among Japanese immigrants in non-endemic area of Brazil.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Larissa M Bandeira (مؤلف), Silvia N O Uehara (مؤلف), Marcel A Asato (مؤلف), Gabriela S Aguena (مؤلف), Cristiane M Maedo (مؤلف), Nikolas H Benites (مؤلف), Marco A M Puga (مؤلف), Grazielli R Rezende (مؤلف), Carolina M Finotti (مؤلف), Gabriela A Cesar (مؤلف), Tayana S O Tanaka (مؤلف), Vivianne O L Castro (مؤلف), Koko Otsuki (مؤلف), Ana C P Vicente (مؤلف), Carlos E Fernandes (مؤلف), Ana R C Motta-Castro (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• الموضوعات: article
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BACKGROUND:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has worldwide distribution and is considered endemic in many world regions, including southwestern Japan and Brazil. Japanese immigrants and their descendants have a high risk of acquiring this infection due to intense population exchange between...