High prevalence of arthropathy in HTLV-I carriers on a Japanese island.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the aetiological relationship between human T cell leukaemia virus type-I (HTLV-I) and arthritis, by performing an epidemiological study of the inhabitants of Tsushima, an island northwest of the main island of Kyushu, Japan, which is an endemic area of HTLV-I. METHODS: A tot...

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Main Authors: Motokawa, S, Hasunuma, T, Tajima, K, Krieg, A M, Ito, S, Iwasaki, K, Nishioka, K
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1996
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1010128/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8712884
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