Primate T-Lymphotropic Virus Type I LTR Sequence Variation and Its Phylogenetic Analysis: Compatibility with an African Origin of PTLV-I

Nucleotide sequence analysis of human T-

Nucleotide sequence analysis of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I pX and LTR regions from patients with Sicca syndrome

✍ Beby-Defaux, Agn�s; Frugier, Fran�ois; Bourgoin, Anne; Moynet, Daniel; Hajjar, C 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 280 KB 👁 2 views

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is associated with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-Iassociated myelopathy (TSP/HAM). Other inflammatory disorders may occur in HTLV-Iinfected patients, such as sicca syndrome resembling Sjo ¨gren's syndrome. The sicca