Mother-to-child Transmission of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1

Mother-to-child transmission of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1.

Title Mother-to-child Transmission of Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Author(s) Moriuchi, Hiroyuki; Masuzaki, Hideaki; Doi, Hiroshi; Katamine, Shigeru Citation The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 32(2), pp.175-177; 2013 Issue Date 2013-02 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/31485 Right © 2013 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.; This is a non-final version of an article published in fi...

Sexual transmission of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1.

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is endemic in many parts of the world and is primarily transmitted through sexual intercourse or from mother to child. Sexual transmission occurs more efficiently from men to women than women to men and might be enhanced by sexually transmitted diseases that cause ulcers and result in mucosal ruptures, such as syphilis, herpes simplex type 2 (HSV-...

High proviral load of human T cell lymphotropic virus type-1 facilitates coronary artery diseases

Objective(s): Coronary artery disease (CAD) is known as a life threatening disease, worldwide. In this study the role of HTLV-1 infection was evaluated on cardiac involvement in an endemic region of northeastern Iran.Materials and Methods: Serologic and molecular tests for HTLV-1 infection were carried out in subjects who had coronary an...

Awareness of laboratory students of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences about human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1)

Introduction: HTLV-1 virus is a human retrovirus and it causes several chronic diseases. So far, there is not any vaccine or satisfactory treatment that has been developed for infections caused by this virus. Moreover, the best way to control the infection is prevention and the best way to prevent it is education. Therefore, our study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of ...

Incidence of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) among Blood Donors from Ilam, Iran