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Use of a generic polymerase chain reaction assay detecting human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) types I, II and divergent simian strains in the evaluation of individuals with indeterminate HTLV serology

✍ Scribed by Vandamme, Anne-Mieke; Van Laethem, Kristel; Liu, Hsin-Fu; Van Brussel, Marianne; Delaporte, Eric; de Castro Costa, Carlos Mauricio; Fleischer, Carola; Taylor, Graham; Bertazzoni, Umberto; Desmyter, Jan; Goubau, Patrick

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 153 KB
Volume: 52
Category: Article
ISSN: 0146-6615
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199705)52:1<1::aid-jmv1>3.0.co;2-8

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✦ Synopsis

lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection, indeter-ᮊ 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc. minate HTLV serologies are a major problem in blood bank screening because of the uncertain-KEY WORDS: nested PCR; diagnostics; PTLV ties about infection in these cases. The recent discovery of two new types of simian T-lymphotropic viruses (STLV), which give an HTLV-indeterminate serology, raises the question whether