Abstract Objectives In Europe, the vast majority of HTLV-1-infected individuals originate from
highly endemic regions (eg, West Indies, sub-Saharan Africa, South America). The only …

HTLV-1 is currently classified in 7 different subtypes (ag) based on the nucleotide diversity of
its LTR region. The Cosmopolitan subtype (a) has spread worldwide and is further divided …

Several publications describe the presence of the human T cell lymphotropic virus type I
(HTLV-I) in Jewish individuals born in Mash-had, Iran. We report here the results of HTLV-I …

Human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection in Spain is rare and mainly affects
immigrants from endemic regions and native Spaniards with a prior history of sexual …

Materials and methods HTLV-1 infected persons, either patients or HTLV-1 asymptomatic
carriers, mostly living in Paris area, were included. Their geographical origin was …

It has been difficult to explain why all HTLV-1 sequences in Salvador, a city in the northeast
of Brazil, belong to the Transcontinental (A) subgroup of the Cosmopolitan (a) subtype, since …

BACKGROUND:: HTLV-2 infection is prevalent among intravenous drug users (IDUs), which
often are coinfected with HIV-1. Two main subtypes, HTLV-2a and-2b, have been described …

In most parts of Europe only a limited number of sporadic cases of HTLV-I infections have
been identified. So far, the few cases found in Germany have always been linked to …

The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), identified as the first human oncogenic
retrovirus 30 years ago, is not an ubiquitous virus. HTLV-1 is present throughout the world …

Human T cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1) is an oncoretrovirus that infects at least 10 million
people worldwide. HTLV-1 exhibits a remarkable genetic stability, however, viral strains …