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VIRUS RESEARCH
卷 91, 期 2, 页码 231-239出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(02)00276-9
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defective provirus; HTLV-1; TSP/HAM patients
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Infection with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) have been associated with the development of the tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1-associated myclopathy (TSP/HAM). We studied the presence of HTLV-1 provirus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 72 Chilean patients with progressive spastic paraparesis by polymerase chain reaction: 32 seropositive and 40 seronegative cases. We amplified different genomic regions of HTLV-1 using primers of 5' Itr, tax, env/tax, pX, pol and env genes. These genes were detected from all seropositive patients. The seronegative patients were negative with 5' Itr, pol, env, and pX primers. However, amplified product of tax and env/tax genes was detected from 16 and four seronegative patients, respectively. Three of them were positive with both genetic regions. The results of this study show that the complete HTLV-1 provirus is found in 100% of seropositive cases. In seronegative cases, clinically very similar of seropositive cases, was found only tax gene in 42.5% (17/40) of patients. These results suggest the presence of a defective HTLV-1 provirus in some seronegative patients with progressive spastic paraparesis, and suggest a pathogenic role of this truncate provirus for a group of TSP/HAM. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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