TY - JOUR AU - Cassar, Olivier AU - Capuano, Corinne AU - Meertens, Laurent AU - Chungue, Eliane AU - Gessain, Antoine T1 - Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Molecular Variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 5 SP - 706 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Four of 391 Ni-Vanuatu women were infected with variants of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Melanesian subtype C. These strains had env nucleotide sequences ≈99% similar to each other and diverging from the main molecular subtypes of HTLV-1 by 6% to 9%. These strains were likely introduced during ancient human population movements in Melanesia. KW - molecular epidemiology KW - Human retrovirus KW - HTLV-1 KW - Melanesia KW - Vanuatu DO - 10.3201/eid1105.041015 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/5/04-1015_article ER - End of Reference