| Autor: |
Gianguglielmo Zehender, Erika Ebranati, Flavia Bernini, Chiara De Maddalena, Camilla Giambelli, Jaime Collins, Ada Valverde, Zeffirino Montin, Massimo Galli |
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AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses; Sep2007, Vol. 23 Issue 9, p1146-1149, 4p |
| Abstrakt: |
We investigated the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 in Peruvian HIV-1-positive subjects, and found a 10.1 prevalence in a consecutive series of 318 HIV-1-positive patients living in Lima. Phylogenetic analysis of the long terminal repeat of 10 patient isolates showed that all of them belonged to the HTLV-1aA (Transcontinental) subgroup. Although the majority of the Peruvian sequences included in the analysis formed a clade with other Latin American sequences, the isolates of three patients clustered significantly with South African strains. These data show a high prevalence of HTLV-1 infection in HIV-1-positive subjects living in Lima and confirm the presence in Latin America of HTLV-1 strains probably arising from South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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