In order to shed light on the mode of HTLV-I infection by mother-to-child transmission, we examined sera of school children in a highly endemic town on two separate occasions at a 6-year interval. The carrier rates in ages 15-17, 8.7 and 2.1%, were significantly higher than that in ages 6-8, 1.7 and
Family study of women showing development of antibody to human T-cell leukemia virus I and assessment of the risk of vertical transmission of the virus to their children
β Scribed by Yoshiya Ando; Takuo Tanigawa; Yutaka Ekuni; Motohiko Ichijo; Takenori Tohyama
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 310 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-4453
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