Prevalence and evolutionary analyses of human T-cell lymphotropic virus in Guangdong province, China: Transcontinental and Japanese subtype lineages dominate the prevalence.

• Main Authors: Qiao Liao (Author), Zhengang Shan (Author), Min Wang (Author), Jieting Huang (Author), Ru Xu (Author), Tingting Li (Author), Wenjing Wang (Author), Chengyao Li (Author), Xia Rong (Author), Yongshui Fu (Author)
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• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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To systematically characterize the prevalence and evolution of human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection among voluntary blood donors (BDs) in Guangdong province, China. A three-year survey for HTLV epidemiology among BDs was performed in Guangdong during 2016-2018. Anti-HTLV-1/2 was screened...