Increased replication of HTLV-I in HTLV-
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Dr Mitsuaki Yoshida; Mitsuhiro Osame; Hisaomi Kawai; Masami Toita; Nanako Kuwasa
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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To estimate the replication of the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) in patients with HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM), or tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), HTLV-I DNA integrated into lymphocyte genomes was analyzed by Southern blot hybridization. HTLV-I DNA was detected in 125 (82%) o