Human T-lymphotropic virus type II infection in Vietnamese thalassemic patients

M. T. Lin; B. T. Nguyen; T. V. Binh; T. V. Be; T. Y. Chiang; L. H. Tseng; Y. C. Yang; K. H. Lin; Y. C. Chen

doi:10.1007/s007050050170

Human T-lymphotropic virus type II infection in Vietnamese thalassemic patients

M. T. Lin, B. T. Nguyen, T. V. Binh, T. V. Be, T. Y. Chiang, L. H. Tseng, Y. C. Yang, K. H. Lin, Y. C. Chen

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Anti-human T-lymphotropic virus type I/II (HTLV-I/II) antibodies were screened by particle agglutination test in a total of 66 patients with thalassemia major who received multiple transfusion from paid donors at the Blood Transfusion Hematology Center of Ho Chi Minh City in South Vietnam. HTLV-II infection was confirmed in 6 patients (9.1%) by Western blot analysis and/or polymerase chain reaction. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that long terminal repeat sequences of HTLV-II proviruses from 5 thalassemic patients in Vietnam belonged to the same phylogenetic subgroup of HTLV-IIb as those from intravenous drug abusers in North America and Europe. These data shed light on the route of introducing HTLV-II into Vietnam.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1429-1440
Number of pages	12
Journal	Archives of Virology
Volume	142
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s007050050170
State	Published - 1997
Externally published	Yes

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Human T-lymphotropic virus type II infection in Vietnamese thalassemic patients

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