Article
[HTLV-I retroviral variant in Zaire in patient with chronic neuromyelopathy. Nucleotidic sequence of the envelope gene].
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie - 1 Jan 1992
Gessain A, Boeri E, Kazadi K, Garin B, Salaün J J, Gallo R, de Thé G, Franchini G
Abstract excerpt
The oncoretrovirus HTLV-I is the etiological agent of adult T cell leukemia (ATL) and tropical spastic paraparesis/HLTV-I associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM). In contrast to the human lentiretroviruses, HIV-I and HIV-2, the causative agents of AIDS, HTLV-I is genetically very stable. We report here the molecular characterization of the envelope gene of an HTLV-I variant present in a TSP/HAM patient from Zaïre,...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chronic Disease
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Genes, env
- Genetic Variation
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic