human T lymphotropic virus type I
Association between maternal antibodies to the external envelope glycoprotein and vertical transmission of human T lymphotropic virus type I Maternal anti env antibodies correlate with protection in non breast fed children
... of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) depends primarily on breast-feeding; substitution of bottle-feeding has reduced the transmission rate from 20% in breast-fed ...
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Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type-I
... Nagasaki Prefecture, the westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1.5 million; there is a high prevalence of carriers (approximately 10% of population older than 40 years) an[r] ...
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Human T-lymphotropic virus type I and breastfeeding; systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature
... breastfeeding that extends after the disappearance of the maternal antibody seems to be an important risk factor for mother-to-child transmission of HTLV-I. This view is concordant with the protective role of the ...
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Isolation of a human T-lymphotropic virus type I strain from Australian aboriginals.
... Controls included an HTLV-I-positive cell line MT-2 28, an uninfected T-cell culture HUT-78, human B cells transformed by Epstein-Barr virus, and an anti-B-cell mouse monoclonal antibody[r] ...
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Pharmacological inhibition of in vitro infectivity of human T lymphotropic virus type I
... target T cells was substantially reduced when the cells were protected by the compounds against the virus and that at certain concentrations of the compounds the synthesis of viral DNA was completely ...
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Clonal expansion of CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes against human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV I) genome products in HTLV I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis patients
... CD8+ T cells. Variations in the T cell receptor (TCR) V alpha and V beta chains in these cells were analyzed, and in all 10 patients examined, 2-3 V gene families were dominant in both TCR V alpha and V ...
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Evaluating the frequency of HTLV-Ι/Π infection among blood donors, major thalassemic patients and individuals infected with hepatitis B and C viruses in Isfahan, Iran
... The human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I is the first retrovirus identified in ...The virus has been associated with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, human ...
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Reevaluation for clinical manifestations of HTLV I seropositive patients with Sjögren’s syndrome
... HTLV-I: Human T lymphotropic virus type I; HAM: HTLV-I-associated myelopathy; TSP: Tropical spastic paraparesis; ATL: Adult-T cell leukemia; SS: Sjögren ’ s ...
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The p12I, p13II, and p30II proteins encoded by human T-cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus type I open reading frames I and II are localized in three different cellular compartments.
... Expression of alternatively spliced human T-lymphotropic virus type I HTLV-I pX mRNA in infected cell lines and in primary uncultured cells from patients with adult T-cell leukemia/lymph[r] ...
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Immunologic cross-reactivity between structural proteins of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I and the blood stage of Plasmodium falciparum.
... To determine the serologic cross-reactivity between human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and parasite antigens, we measured antibody responses against HTLV-I, Plasmodium falci[r] ...
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A Cohort Study of Health Effects of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I Infection in Jamaican Children
... visits occurring at 30 months to 120 months of age, person-years at risk accrued from the child’s age at their 30-month clinic visit for both infected and uninfected children, as the oldest age at infec- tion was 27 ...
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Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 in coastal natives of British Columbia: phylogenetic affinities and possible origins.
... and t-test ...The t-test confidence probability (CP) for its basal branch is 91% ...of type I error in designating a branch length as significantly different from zero ...
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Immunodetection of human T cell lymphotropic virus type I core protein in biological samples by using a monoclonal antibody immunoassay
... Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I HTLV-I is associated with various forms of lymphoproliferation and leukemogenesis, including polyclonal lymphocytosis of T cells 9, 32, adult T-cel[r] ...
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Characterization of antibody reactivity to human T cell lymphotropic virus types I and II using immunoblot and radioimmunoprecipitation assays
... We have characterized the immunoreactivity to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I HTLV-I among 26,983 persons of various seroprevalence groups by using enzyme immunoassay, immunoblot [r] ...
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Immunopathological mechanisms of human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV I) uveitis Detection of HTLV I infected T cells in the eye and their constitutive cytokine production
... constitutively produced high amounts of IL-6 (1,336 +/- 1,050 pg/ml) and TNF-alpha (289 +/- 237 pg/ml) in the absence of any stimuli. HTLV-I-infected TCC from the ocular lesion also constitutively produced high ...
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Lymphocyte-facilitated infection of epithelia by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I.
... 4601 Downloaded from http://jvi.asm.org/ on November 9, 2019 by guest After the addition of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I HTLV-I-infected lymphocytes to enterocyte monolayers, t[r] ...
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Human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1- associated infective dermatitis in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
... Blood counts, measurement of immunoglobulin levels, serum protein electrophoresis, viral studies, skin swabs for bacterial culture and examination of stool samples for para- sites were done. All enrolled participants (n ...
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Infantile Botulism: An Atypical Case of an Uncommon Disease
... A 7-year-old black boy, born in Grenada, was re- ferred to the Dermatology Service at New York Uni- versity Medical Center (NYUMC) because of a 3-year history of hypopigmented macules and patches cov- ering about 20% of ...
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Infantile Botulism: An Atypical Case of an Uncommon Disease
... cutaneous T cell lymphoma, mycosis fun- goides (MF), is characterized by proliferation of atypical lymphocytes that preferentially home to the ...to human T cell lymphotropic virus ...
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Role of HTLV 1 orf I encoded proteins in viral transmission and persistence
... the regulatory genes p30, p27, and p12 [117]. Interest- ingly, the greatest nucleotide and amino acid diver- gence between these two clades was observed in orf-I. In all seven HTLV-1C sequences, nucleotide ...
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