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Absence of HTLV-II co-infection in HTLV-I-associated myelopathy patients
K Miyamoto1, T Nakamura, S Nagataki
1School of Health Sciences, Okayama University.
Japanese Journal of Cancer Research : Gann
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
Syncytium inhibition assay to distinguish between HTLV-I and HTLV-II infection was performed with sera and cerebrospinal fluid of 15 HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM) patients. Also, genome analysis of HTLV-II proviral DNA was performed in some HAM patients by use of the polymerase chain reaction method. All of the HAM patients were negative for co-infection with HTLV-II.