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. 1998 Jun;36(6):1811-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.36.6.1811-1813.1998.

Defective human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) provirus in 10 Chilean seronegative patients with tropical spastic paraparesis or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy

E Ramirez  1 , L Cartier, M Rios, J Fernandez
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Defective human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) provirus in 10 Chilean seronegative patients with tropical spastic paraparesis or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy

E Ramirez et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1998 Jun.

Abstract

We studied the presence of tax and ltr genes from human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) provirus in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 15 seronegative patients with tropical spastic paraparesis or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy by PCR. Only a region of the tax gene from 10 patients was amplified. The nucleotide homologies of six Chilean isolates to the ATK-1 clone ranged between 98.7 and 99.4%.

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FIG. 1
Nucleotide sequence of 158 bp of the tax gene from six Chilean HTLV-I-seronegative patients with PSP.
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