Article
Genotyping of human T cell lymphotropic virus type I using Australo-Melanesian topotype-specific oligonucleotide primer-based polymerase chain reaction: insights into viral evolution and dissemination.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 1994
Nerurkar V R, Song K J, Bastian I B, Garin B, Franchini G, Yanagihara R
Abstract excerpt
Sequence variants of human T cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), genetically distinct from cosmopolitan strains of HTLV-I from Japan, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa, have been discovered among Melanesians in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and among Australian aboriginals....
Topics
- Australia
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- Gene Products, env
- Genes, env
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
- Humans
- Melanesia
- Molecular Sequence Data
- New Guinea
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic