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Isolation, cloning, and complete nucleotide sequence of a phenotypically distinct Brazilian isolate of human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II).
Virology - 25 May 2000
Lewis M J, Novoa P, Ishak R, Ishak M, Salemi M, Vandamme A M, Kaplan M H, Hall W W
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) isolates from North America and Europe have demonstrated the existence of two molecular subtypes of the virus, HTLV-IIa and HTLV-IIb. Recently, studies on HTLV-II infections in Brazil have revealed isolates that are related phylogenetically to the HTLV-IIa subtype but have a HTLV-IIb phenotype with respect to the transactivating protein, tax. To more...
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