| htlv type 1 genetic types among native descendants in argentina. | the province of san salvador de jujuy, located in the northwest of argentina, is a highly endemic area for htlv-1 infection and a foci of tropical spastic paraparesis/htlv-1-associated myelopathy (ham/tsp). therefore, to better understand this, we carried out a genetic characterization of a large set of htlv-1 strains (n = 65) of descendants of amerindians from this region. the ltr and env regions were analyzed. the genetic analysis showed that all of these new htlv-1 isolates from argentina bel ... | 2008 | 18657044 |