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High prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus 2 (HTLV-2) infection in villages of the Xikrin tribe (Kayapo), Brazilian Amazon region

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Published in 2019 at "BMC Infectious Diseases"

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-4041-0

Abstract: BackgroundStudies have shown that the human T-lymphotropic virus 2 (HTLV-2) is endemic in several indigenous populations of the Brazilian Amazon and molecular analyses have shown the exclusive presence of HTLV-2 subtype 2c among the indigenous… read more here.

Keywords: htlv; villages xikrin; brazilian amazon; infection ... See more keywords