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Seroconfirmacion de la infeccion por HTLV-I y HTLV-II. La prueba de Western blot confirmo como HTLV-I a 83.3% (20/24) de las muestras que fueron reactivas por las pruebas de micro ELISA (Grafica 1A).

Editorial Note: Although HTLV-II has not been clearly linked with any disease (3), a high prevalence of HTLV-II infection has been reported among HTLV-seropositive U.S.

In contrast to HTLV-I, known to cause adult T-cell leukemia, HTLV-II previously had been isolated in fewer than half a dozen people and cannot be definitively blamed for any ailment.

Other investigators have reported an association between HTLV-II and pneumonia among injection drug users (15).

Although none of 59 participants aged <7 years tested HTLV-antibody--positive, 17 (9%) of 195 persons aged [unkeyable] 7 years tested HTLV-I/II-antibody--positive; all were confirmed by additional testing to be infected with HTLV-II.

En los casos de HTLV-I y de HTLV-II hay la historia del uso de drogas EV o de mujeres que han tenido contacto sexual con hombres que emplean drogas ilicitas.

PCR studies were performed on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the first 136 HTLV-I/II-seropositive ARC blood donors available (ARC, unpublished data): 56 (41%) were confirmed to be infected with HTLV-I, 57 (42%) with HTLV-II, and three (2%) with both viruses.

The role of HTLV-II infection as a cause of disease is still controversial.

Risk factors for HTLV-II infection in Peruvian men who have sex with men.

HTLV-II has not been definitively linked to human illness but has been isolated from patients with a rare T-cell leukemia.

Tropical spastic paraparesis-like illness occurring in a patient dually infected with HIV and HTLV-II. Neurology 1991;41(1):85-87.