The prevalence of antibodies to HTLV‐I in 5,475 Portuguese from 6 regions spanning the
country was studied. Overall seroprevalence was 0.55%, indicating that Portugal is not an …

Human T‐lymphotropic virus type 1 and 2 (HTLV‐1 and HTLV‐2) infections in Europe are
limited to intravenous drug users and migrants coming from areas in which they are …

Background: Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is linked etiologically with adult T
cell leukemia/lymphoma and HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparsis …

Serological studies on 926 blood samples from 703 Brazilian Kayapo (Cayapo) Indians
showed, by conventional definition of HTLV seropositivity, a 28% prevalence of human T …

We studied the prevalence of anti-HTLV-I/II antibodies in 22 patients with AIDS-related non-
Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), 453 HIV-1-infected patients without Iymphoma (194 of whom …

Co‐infections with HIV‐1 and the human T leukemia virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV‐1, HTLV‐2)
occur frequently, particularly in large metropolitan areas where injection drug use is a …

We have investigated HTLV-I and HTLV-II infection in children born to HTLV-I-seropositive
or indeterminate Western blot mothers in Martinique by using the polymerase chain reaction …

The primate T-cell lymphoma viruses (PTLV) are divided into six distinct species. The
biology and epidemiology of PTLV-1 and PTLV-2 are very well understood. However, that of …

A stringent procedure for the diagnosis of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection was
applied to 1,732 volunteer blood donors, 401 patients with various hematological disorders …

Recently, some of us presented data concerning HIV frequency in female sex workers (FSW)
from the port city of Imbituba, Santa Catarina (SC), Southern Brazil10. Out of 90 FSW, six …