Deleted HTLV-1 provirus in cord-blood sa
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Aslamuzzaman Kazi; Hironori Miyata; Toshio Kamahora; Kenji Kurokawa; Shigeru Kat
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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We screened 596 cord-blood samples by nested short PCRs for the gag and pX regions of HTLV-1 which are capable of detecting a single copy. The samples were derived from 449 and 147 babies born to seropositive and seronegative mothers respectively. Of these, 20 samples were positive in at least one o