Human retroviruses in Amerindians of Colombia - high prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type-II infection among the Tunebo Indians

eng: The coexistence of infection with human T lymphotropic virus types I and II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) has been demonstrated recently among the Wayuu Indians from the Guajira region of Colombia. To ascertain if other Indian groups in Colombia are similarly infected, we tested 1,250 sera, collected be...