Article
Prophylaxis against a Melanesian variant of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in rabbits using HTLV-I immune globulin from asymptomatically infected Japanese carriers.
Blood - 15 Dec 1993
Tanaka Y, Ishii K, Sawada T, Ohtsuki Y, Hoshino H, Yanagihara R, Miyoshi I
Abstract excerpt
Molecular variants of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), which diverge significantly from the so-called cosmopolitan prototypes, have been discovered in Melanesia. In this study, HTLV-I IgG (I-IgG) prepared from seropositive healthy Japanese carriers was evaluated for its protective effe...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral
- Blotting, Western
- Carrier State
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- Fetal Blood
- Genetic Variation
- HTLV-I Infections
- Human T-lymphotropic virus 1
- Humans