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Long terminal repeat sequence analysis of HTLV-2 molecular variants identified in Southern Brazil.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Dec 2010
Magri Mariana Cavalheiro, Morimoto Helena Kaminami, de Macedo Brígido Luis Fernando, Rodrigues Rosangela, Caterino-de-Araujo Adele
Abstract excerpt
In Brazil, human T-lymphotropic virus type 2 (HTLV-2) is endemic in Amerindians and epidemic in intravenous drug users (IDUs). The long terminal repeat (LTR) is the most divergent genomic region of HTLV-2, therefore useful to characterize subtypes. Nucleotide sequence and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of LTR genomic segments of fourteen HTLV-2 strains isolated from HIV-infected patients...
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