Brain white matter lesions in HAM/TSP: do they have any special meaning?

OA Moreno-Carvalho - Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
HTLV-I infection is a necessary condition for the development of HAM/TSP, but is insufficient
on its own for this to occur. Risk factors play a pivotal role as disease “determinants”. High …

[HTML][HTML] Utility of HTLV proviral load quantification in diagnosis of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy requires international standardization

MFR Grassi, VN Olavarria… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Given that the majority of infected persons remain disease-free, one of the challenges of the
clinical management of HTLV-1-infected patients with myelopathic symptoms is to establish …

SYBR Green-based quantitation of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 proviral load in Peruvian patients with neurological disease and asymptomatic carriers …

V Adaui, K Verdonck, I Best, E González… - Journal of …, 2006 - Springer
To evaluate the human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) proviral DNA load in patients
with HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and …

Monitoring the HTLV‐1 proviral load in the peripheral blood of asymptomatic carriers and patients with HTLV‐associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis from …

MSBS Furtado, RG Andrade… - Journal of medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Human T‐lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV‐1) infection is associated with HTLV‐associated
myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), which affects approximately 5% of …

Clinical manifestations in HTLV-1 infected individuals without HAM/TSP: results of an 8 years cohort

D Tanajura, N Castro, P Oliveira, G Orge, A Souza… - Retrovirology, 2014 - Springer
Method This is a cohort study with 440 HTLV-1 infected individuals in Salvador, Bahia.
Symptoms were computed every year and incidence rates were calculated to each variable …

Clinical subtype of HAM/TSP based on clinical course and laboratory findings

Y Yamano, T Sato, N Araya, N Yagishita, Y Shimizu… - Retrovirology, 2011 - Springer
The clinical course and disease activity of patients with HTLV-1 associated
myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) are different among patients. Therefore …

Quantitative proviral DNA and antibody levels in the natural history of HTLV-I infection

A Manns, WJ Miley, RJ Wilks… - The Journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
The pathogenesis of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in adult T-cell
leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) and HTLV-I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis …

Clinical features of familial HAM/TSP

S Nozuma, E Matsuura, T Matsuzaki, O Watanabe… - Retrovirology, 2014 - Springer
Some genetic factors are associated with the development of HTLV-1-associated
myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). So far, there is a very few report about …

Quantitation of HTLV-I and II proviral load using real-time quantitative PCR with SYBR Green chemistry

TH Lee, DM Chafets, MP Busch, EL Murphy - Journal of clinical virology, 2004 - Elsevier
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 …

Human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) proviral load in asymptomatic carriers, HTLV-1–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis, and other …

MTT Silva, RC Harab, AC Leite, D Schor… - Clinical infectious …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Recent reports have demonstrated that human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is
associated with other neurological abnormalities in addition to HTLV-1–associated …