| [screening of infectious microorganisms in blood banks in douala (1995-2004)]. | the infection of people with haemophilia by human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) through blood transfusions demonstrated the potential risks of infectious disease transmission by transfusions. the microorganisms that can be transmitted through transfusion include: hepatitis viruses b, c, d, and g, hiv, cytomegalovirus, human t lymphotrophic virus (htlv i and ii), treponema pallidum, brucella spp, toxoplasma gondii, plasmodium spp and trypanosoma cruzi. we estimated the prevalence of transfusion-tr ... | 2009 | 19801344 |
| a new htlv type ii subtype a isolate in an hiv type 1-infected prostitute from cameroon, central africa. | among 332 female sex workers in douala, cameroon, 113 were hiv-1 seropositive, 3 were htlv-i seropositive, and only 1 had specific anti-htlv-ii antibodies. by cocultivation with bjab cells, an htlv-ii was isolated from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of this 32-year-old woman coinfected by hiv-1. this new african htlv-ii isolate (ph230pcam) belongs to the molecular subtype a, exhibiting, however, a nucleotide variability of 2.4% and 0.8%, vis-à-vis the mo prototype, in the ltr and in the ... | 1995 | 7492447 |