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Questions on the evolution of primate T-lymphotropic viruses raised by molecular and epidemiological studies of divergent strains.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association - 1 Jan 1996
Goubau P, Vandamme A M, Desmyter J
Abstract excerpt
In human and simian T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLV and STLV), collectively referred to as primate T-lymphotropic viruses (PTLV), four distinct clades can be distinguished: PTLV-I, PTLV-II, and the newly discovered divergent STLVs isolated from hamadryas baboons and from bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees). The hamadryas STLV is clearly distinct from types I and II, in terms both of sequence divergence and of genomic...
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