Seroprevalence of HTLV-I and HTLV-II among Intravenous Drug Users and Persons in Clinics for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

HUMAN T-cell lymphotropic viruses Type I (HTLV-I) and Type II (HTLV-II) are closely related retroviruses. 1 HTLV-I is associated with adult T-cell leukemia and with myelopathy or tropical spastic paraparesis. 2 HTLV-II, first isolated from a patient with a variant of hairy-cell leukemia, has not bee...

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