Abstract Of 13 West-Indian-born UK residents with spastic paraparesis of unknown cause,
11 were tested for serum antibody to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 and all were …

Abstract 10 out of 17 (59%) patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) had antibodies
to human T-lymphotropic virus-I (HTLV-I), as did 5 out of 5 TSP patients with systemic …

IgG antibodies to human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1) were found in 11 of 13 (85%)
Jamaican patients with idiopathic adult polymyositis. The association was first observed in 7 …

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

OBJECTIVE--To compare the prevalence of antibody to and proviral DNA of the retrovirus
HTLV-I in relatives of 11 British patients with tropical spastic paraparesis who had migrated …

Acute encephalopathy was associated with the appearance of antibodies to human T-
lymphotropic virus (HTLV-III) in two patients. A third patient showed seroconversion for anti …

• Tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), a chronic myelopathy of unknown etiology, was studied
in the Seychelles. Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and human immunodeficiency …

Of 96 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex
and healthy individuals at risk for AIDS, 4 had no detectable antibodies to viral proteins …

Twenty-one patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), all of whom were born in the
Caribbean and who had migrated to the United Kingdom, are described. All had a …

All 17 patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) in a series seen in the United
Kingdom have antibodies to the human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). Cultured …