Sera from 182 Zairians (99 females and 83 males), aged 5 to 71 years, including maternity
and child care consultants, out‐patients suffering from minor injuries and patients …

A study of 12 891 blood donors in Buenos Aires in 1991-1992 found an HTLV-I/II
seroprevalence of 0.07%; no coinfection with HIV-1 was seen, and the authors suggest that …

Two hundred twenty-eight plasma specimens collected over a 4-year period from 185
children aged 4 days to 10 years at risk for human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) infection …

Editor: Studies performed in South and Central America showed thatHTLV-is endemic in
indigenous Indian popu¬ lations, suggesting that the origin of this virus is the New World.'In …

Among 332 female sex workers in Douala, Cameroon, 113 were HIV-1 seropositive, 3 were
HTLV-I seropositive, and only 1 had specific anti-HTLV-II antibodies. By cocultivation with …

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiologic agent of adult T cell
leukemia/lymphoma and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. HTLV …

Human T lymphotropic viruses (HTLVs) have a limited spread in the general populations of
Western countries. Consequently, the transfusional risk for HTLV is considered to be low in …

Co-infection with HTLV-1 reaches 20% among patients infected by HIV-1 in Bahia, Brazil. To
evaluate its impact on survival, we conducted a retrospective, case–control study involving …

To clarify the ethnic specificity of human T cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) and type II
(HTLV-II) carriers among Colombian native Indians, we investigated the geographic …

A 37 year-old man coinfected with HIV-1 and human T-lymphotropic virus type II presumably
through injection drug use had a high CD4+ count and low HIV viral load without anti …