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Prevalence and evolutionary analyses of human T-cell lymphotropic virus in Guangdong province, China: Transcontinental and Japanese subtype lineages dominate the prevalence.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Feb 2021
Liao Qiao, Shan Zhengang, Wang Min, Huang Jieting, Xu Ru, Li Tingting, Wang Wenjing, Li Chengyao, Rong Xia, Fu Yongshui
Abstract excerpt
To systematically characterize the prevalence and evolution of human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) infection among voluntary blood donors (BDs) in Guangdong province, China. A three-year survey for HTLV epidemiology among BDs was performed in Guangdong during 2016-2018. Anti-HTLV-1/2 was screened by ELISA and ECLIA, and subsequently confirmed by western blot (WB) and nucleic acid testing (NAT). The prevalence...
Topics
- Adult
- Bayes Theorem
- Blood Donors
- Blotting, Western
- China
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- Genotype
- HTLV-I Infections
- HTLV-II Infections