High seroprevalence of antiβHTLV-I antib
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Katsumi Eguchi; Tomoki Origuchi; Hiroyuki Takashima; Kokichi Iwata; Shigeru Kata
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## KATAMINE, and SHIGENOBU NAGATAKI Objective. To investigate the association between human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Nagasaki, an area highly endemic for HTLV-I infection. Methods. Sera from 113 female patients with RA and 19,796 female blood