Human T-lymphotropic viruses, HTLV, comprise a family of four related retroviruses that affect T-cells, a type of white blood cell. The viruses are thought to have passed from monkeys into humans, and ...
Diagnosis. HTLV-1-associated acute adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma with bone marrow infiltration and hypercalcemia. Reaching the correct diagnosis was difficult and only possible through close ...
Infection with HTLV-1 can result in leukaemia or a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis; HAM/TSP). A high level of ...