Novel human retroviruses discovered in Africa
β Scribed by Rob Brierley
- Book ID
- 117790039
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1473-3099
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After decades of work, a retrovirus of true human origin has been isolated first from a U.S. adult case of T-cell lymphoma and then from cases from various regions ofthe world. This virus, named HTLV-I. is strongly associated with a malignant leukemia-lymphoma of mature T-cells. This disease was fir
## Abstract Retrovirology emerged as a branch of science at the beginning of the last century. However, a deeper insight into the pathology of retroviruses and retrovirusβinduced cancers could only be gained after the advent of modern biochemical and molecular biological techniques in the 1970s and