ABSTRACT Background: Infection with Human T cell Leukemia Virus type 1 can be
associated with myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and other inflammatory …

INTRODUCTION: HIV positive patients co-infected with HTLV-1 may have an increase in
their T CD4+ cell counts, thus rendering this parameter useless as an AIDS-defining event …

The incidence of human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HLTV-1)-associated
myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is not well defined in the literature …

A quantitative study of the T cell receptor repertoire was performed ex vivo on CD4 and CD8
T cell subsets of human T cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)–infected asymptomatic carriers …

Background A small fraction of Human T cell Leukemia Virus type-1 (HTLV-I) infected
subjects develop a severe form of myelopathy. It has been established that patients with …

To evaluate the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) proviral DNA load among
asymptomatic HTLV-I-infected carriers and patients with HTLV-I-associated …

The prevalence and the risk factors of the human T-cell leukemia virus type I/II (HTLV-I/II)
infection were evaluated among 552 individuals at high risk for HIV-1. HTLV infections …

The human T‐cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV‐I)‐associated myelopathy/tropical spastic
paraparesis (HAM/TSP) associated with the HTLV‐I is a well‐defined clinical–pathological …

Background. Tropical spastic paraparesis/human T leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1)—
associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM) is rarely reported in the United States. The causative …

0022–1899/97/7601–0048 $02.00 of them [2]. A careful read of our article reveals that we
included nothing in the results or conclusions about the effect of HTLVI on the rate of HIV …