The natural history and evolution of human and simian T cell leukemia/lymphotropic viruses

Abstract

The past five years have seen significant advances in understanding the origin and evolution of human T-cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus types I and II. The highlights include the identification of human T-cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus types I and II genotypic variants in remote human populations and the discovery of widely divergent simian T-cell leukemia virus in African and Asian non-human primates.