HTLV-I is endemic in Southern Italy: Detection of the first infectious cluster in a white population
✍ Scribed by Vittorio Manzari; Angela Gradilone; Giovanni Barillari; Massimo Zani; Enrico Collalti; Luigi Frati; Franco Pandolfi; Giulio De Rossi; Vincenzo Liso; Pasquale Babbo; Marjorie Robert Guroff
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 341 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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✦ Synopsis
Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I) infection is observed among black and Japanese populations in well-delimited endemic spots in association with a high incidence of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL). We present evidence of HTLV-I infection in two ATL patients from southeastern Italy who have not travelled and who have no known relations abroad, and in 8% of non-leukemic controls from the same area. Thus, populations exhibiting HTLV-I infection appear more widespread than supposed up to now.