| [investigation of anti-htlv i/ii seroprevalence in healthy blood donors in izmir region, turkey]. | almost 10-20 million people in the world are thought to be infected by human deltaretroviruses, namely human t-cell lymphotropic virus (htlv) type i and ii, recently. htlv-i is endemic in southwestern japan, the caribbean and sub-saharan africa, whereas htlv-ii is more prevalent in intravenous drug addicts, and in american indian populations, endemically. htlv-i is mainly responsible for adult t-cell leukemia (atl) and htlv-i-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp), however, ... | 2010 | 21063970 |