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Comparison between strains of human T lymphotropic virus type I isolated from inhabitants of the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 1991
Yanagihara R, Nerukar V R, Ajdukiewicz A B
Abstract excerpt
Strains of human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) isolated from T cell lines (SI-1, SI-3, and SI-5) from three individuals in separate regions of the Solomon Islands were compared with a variant (PNG-1) isolated from a healthy person in Papua New Guinea and a prototype strain from Japan (MT-2). The SI-1, SI-3, and SI-5 cell lines were predominantly CD8+. Expression of gag- and env-encoded virus-specific...
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