Co-infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1): does immune activation lead to a faster progression to AIDS?
BMC infect. dis; 9 (221), 2009
Background: Recent data have shown that HTLV-1 is prevalent among HIV positive patients in Mozambique, although the impact of HTLV-1 infection on HIV disease progression remains controversial. Our aim was to determine the phenotypic profile of T lymphocytes subsets among Mozambican patients co-infected b...
Mozambique/epidemiology, Middle Aged, Human T-lymphotropic virus 1, Physiology, Allergy and Immunology, HTLV-I Infections, Virology, Pathology, Blood, Flow Cytometry, Women, Disease Progression, CD4 Lymphocyte Count, Adult, HIV, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Flow Cytometry, T-Lymphocytes, Leukemia, T-Cell