TY - JOUR T1 - Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type II Infection inVietnamese Thalassemic Patients. AU - Lin,M T, AU - Nguyen,B T, AU - Binh,T V, AU - Be,T V, AU - Chiang,T Y, AU - Tseng,L H, AU - Yang,Y C, AU - Lin,K H, AU - Chen,Y -C, PY - 2017/9/8/entrez PY - 1997/7/1/pubmed PY - 1997/7/1/medline SP - 1429 EP - 1440 JF - Archives of virology JO - Arch Virol VL - 142 IS - 7 N2 - 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. SN - 1432-8798 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28879400/Human_T_lymphotropic_Virus_Type_II_Infection_inVietnamese_Thalassemic_Patients_ L2 - https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007050050170 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -