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Highly divergent molecular variants of human T-lymphotropic virus type I from isolated populations in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Sept 1991
Gessian A, Yanagihara R, Franchini G, Garruto R M, Jenkins C L, Ajdukiewicz A B, Gallo R C, Gajdusek D C
Abstract excerpt
To determine the molecular genetic relationship between Melanesian strains of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and cosmopolitan prototype HTLV-I, we amplified by PCR, then cloned, and sequenced a 522-base-pair region of the HTLV-I env gene in DNA extracted from uncultured (fresh) and cultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from six seropositive Melanesian Papua New Guineans and Solomon...
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