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Prevalence and partial sequence analysis of human T cell lymphotropic virus type I in China.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2005
Wang Youchun, Li Xiouhua, Song Aijing, Zhang Chuntao, Chen Ying, Chen Changrong, Lin Yisheng, Shun Liping, Li Luilan, Liu Yanchun, Yang Jian, Yang Bowei, Tang Qiouping, Harrison Tim J
Abstract excerpt
A total of 145,293 serum samples were collected from volunteer blood donors in 13 provinces of China and tested for anti-HTLV antibody using an ELISA licensed in China. Thirty were positive for anti-HTLV by ELISA and 19 of those 30 samples were confirmed positive using a supplemental immunoblot assay. Anti-HTLV-I was detected only in samples from Fujian province (a Southern province) where the positivity rate was...
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