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Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
Dispatch

Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Molecular Variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia

Olivier Cassar*†, Corinne Capuano‡, Laurent Meertens†, Eliane Chungue*, and Antoine Gessain†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, France; †Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ‡World Health Organization, Port-Vila, Vanuatu

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Table 2

Epidemiologic data and GenBank accession numbers of the human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) strains of the Melanesian subtype C

Country of origin Age (y) Sex Birth Residence Clinical status Virus name env GenBank accession no. LTR GenBank accession no.
Vanuatu 45 F Ambae Filakalaka AC HTLV-1 VAN 54 AY549879 AY549875
36 F Ambae Ndui Ndui AC HTLV-1 VAN 136 AY549880 AY549876
42 F Ambae Vinangwangwe AC HTLV-1 VAN 251 AY549881 AY549877
42 F Ambae Lolobinanungwa AC HTLV-1 VAN 335 AY549882 AY549878
Papua New Guinea 21 M Madang Madang AC HTLV-1 MEL 1 L02533 NA
60 F Madang Madang AC HTLV-1 MEL 2 M94197 NA
31 M Madang Madang AC HTLV-1 MEL 7 U11576 NA
Solomon Islands 39 F New Georgia Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 3 M94198 NA
60 F Guadalcanal Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 4 M94199 NA
58 M Guadalcanal Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 5 M94200 L02534
38 M Guadalcanal Guadalcanal TSP/HAM HTLV-1 MEL 6 M93099 NA
49 M New Georgia Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 8 U11578 NA
75 M Rendova Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 9 U11580 NA
13 F Guadalcanal Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 10 U11566 NA
42 F Guadalcanal Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 11 U11568 NA
60 F Guadalcanal Guadalcanal AC HTLV-1 MEL 12 U11570 NA
Australia NA NA NA NA AC HTLV-1 MSHR-1 M92818 NA

*LTR, long terminal repeat; F, female; M, male; AC, Asymptomatic carrier; TSP/HAM, tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1–associated myelopathy; NA, not available.

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