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HTLV-I associated sicca syndrome in Guadeloupe: lack of relation with a peculiar encoding sequence of surface
A Georges-Gobinet1, D Moynet, C Hajjar
1INSERM, Unité 328, Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2.
Virus Genes
|June 3, 1998
Abstract:
We previously reported a strikingly high prevalence of ocular diseases in HTLV-I infected patients in Guadeloupe (Caribbean basin). We sequenced the surface envelope encoding region of 7 HTLV-I proviruses from guadeloupean patients (5 with sicca syndrome, 2 with TSP/HAM). No relation between sequence and disease was observed. These 7 sequences are the first described from Guadeloupe.