Caracterização molecular do Htlv-1 em pacientes com paraparesia espástica tropical/mielopatia associada ao HTLV-1 em Belém, Pará
The present study evaluated the occurrence of HTLV-1 and its subtypes in blood samples of patients presenting symptoms of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy. The detection of HTLV infection was performed by serological and molecular assays. Five patients were infected by HTLV-...
| Autor principal: | SOUZA, Lucinda Assunção Gustavo |
|---|---|
| Outros Autores: | LOPES, Ivina Giselle Lima, MAIA, Eduardo Leitão, AZEVEDO, Vânia Nakauth, MACHADO, Luiz Fernando Almeida, ISHAK, Marluísa de Oliveira Guimarães, ISHAK, Ricardo, VALLINOTO, Antonio Carlos Rosário |
| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | por |
| Publicado em: |
2013
|
| Assuntos: | |
| Acesso em linha: |
http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/3599 |
| Resumo: |
|---|
|
The present study evaluated the occurrence of HTLV-1 and its subtypes in blood samples of patients presenting symptoms of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy. The detection of HTLV infection was performed by serological and molecular assays. Five patients were infected by HTLV-1 of the Cosmopolitan subtype, subgroup Transcontinental. The results confirm the occurrence of HTLV-1 infection among patients with clinical diagnosis of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy in Belém, Pará. |