Infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is frequently complicated in its
late stages by the AIDS dementia complex, a neurological syndrome characterized by …

Although retroviruses were among the earliest viruses discovered, 1, 2 they were linked to
human disease only in the early 1980s, 3–5 with the study of T-cell lines from patients with …

We studied the clinical features and laboratory findings in 213 patients with HTLV-I-
associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis as diagnosed in Kagoshima University …

Infection with human T-cell lymphotrophic virus-I (HTLV-I) is now a global epidemic, affecting
10 million to 20 million people. This virus has been linked to life-threatening, incurable …

Dendritic cells (DC), important antigen-presenting cells for recruiting T cells into immune
responses, are susceptible to infection with HIV-1 and this can cause either stimulatory or …

HLA haplotypes of 27 patients with human T‐lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV‐I)‐associated
myelopathy (HAM) and 12 patients with adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) were …

▪ Purpose: To review the clinical, epidemiologic, immunologic, and virologic aspects of the
chronic myelopathy associated with human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type I (HTLV-I) …

Screening for human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) antibodies was performed on sera
from 39,898 blood donors at eight blood centers in geographically distinct areas of the …

Tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) is a slowly progressive myelopathy associated with
increased serum and cerebrospinal fluid antibodies to the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus …

Using the polymerase chain reaction, we quantitated the amount of human T‐lymphotropic
virus type I (HTLV‐I) proviral DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 18 patients …