Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1: a retrovirus causing chronic myeloneuropathies in tropical and temperate climates
Am J Hum Biol
; 2: 429-38, 1990.
Artigo
em Inglês
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JM3.1
Localização: JM3.1; Reprint Collection
ABSTRACT
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), the first human retrovirus to be isolated, is the cause of endemic tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). Originally, this chronic neurological disorder was described as a disease seen among blacks of low socioeconomic status living in tropical countries, and thus for many decades TSP remained a little known curiousty outside the endemic regions. The link between HTLV-I infection and TSP was made fortuitously, when antibodies to HTLV-I were found in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of TSP patients in Jamaica, Colombia, and Martinique. Soon thereafter a similar disorder, designated HTLV-I associated myelopathy (HAM), was reported from southern Japan. This broadened the geographic and ethnic boundaries of this chronic myelopathy and the disease has now been reported in multiple ethnic groups from more than 40 countries, in both tropical and temperate regions. The name TSP/HAM is now used to include all patients (regardless of race or country of origin) who have HTLV-I-positive endemic TSP or HAM. (AU)
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Coleções:
Bases de dados internacionais
Contexto em Saúde:
Doenças Negligenciadas
Problema de saúde:
Helmintíase
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Doenças Negligenciadas
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Vírus Linfotrópico T Tipo 1 Humano
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Infecções por HTLV-I
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Paraparesia Espástica Tropical
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
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Caribe Inglês
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Jamaica
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Am J Hum Biol
Ano de publicação:
1990
Tipo de documento:
Artigo