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Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type II Infection inVietnamese Thalassemic Patients

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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.

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  1. Departments of Oncology, Hematology Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Veitnam, Vietnam

    M. T. Lin & Y. -C. Chen

  2. Blood Transfusion Hematology Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Veitnam, Vietnam

    B. T. Nguyen, T. V. Binh & T. V. Be

  3. Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

    T. Y. Chiang

  4. Medical Genetics,Graduate Institutes of Microbiology and School of Medical Technology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

    L. H. Tseng

  5. Graduate Institutes of Microbiology and School of Medical Technology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

    Y. C. Yang

  6. Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

    K. H. Lin

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Accepted January 27, 1997; Received October 11, 1996

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Lin, M.T., Nguyen, B.T., Binh, T.V. et al. Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type II Infection inVietnamese Thalassemic Patients. Arch. Virol. 142, 1429–1440 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007050050170

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