This retrospective study was designed to determine the relationship between human T-
lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type-I/II infection and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) …

Limited and contradictory information exists regarding the prognosis of HIV/HTLV-I co-
infection. Our goal was to estimate the effect of HTLV-I infection on mortality in HIV-infected …

Going back to their discovery in the early 1980s, both the Human T-cell Leukemia virus type-
1 (HTLV-1) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type-1 (HIV-1) greatly fascinated the …

HTLV-1 was the first described human retrovirus and was soon found to be associated with
severe clinical diseases, including a devastating lymphoma/leukemia and other …

To investigate serological, epidemiological, and molecular aspects of HTLV-1, HTLV-2, and
HIV-1 infections in Amerindian populations in Brazil, we tested 683 and 321 sera from Tiriyo …

HumanT LYMPHOTROPIC virus type I (HTLV-I) is endemic in southwestern Japan, the
Seychelles Islands, the Caribbean basin, Brazil, and sub-Saharan Africa.'HTLV-II has been …

Reports indicate that there is a dissociation between markers of HIV disease progression
and clinical stage among subjects coinfected with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I …

A real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay using SYBR Green was developed to determine
HTLV-I proviral load (pVL) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and its …

The municipality of Londrina ranks second in the number of AIDS cases in the state of
Paraná, Brazil, with the Ministry of Health notified of 1070 cases from 1984 to 2002. The aim …

Sir: A hypothesis, that much of the observed age-related increase in HTLV-I seroprevalence
in endemic areas may be due to" silent" or" seronegative" infection early in life, 1-2 has been …