Volume 18, Number 5—May 2012
Dispatch
Origin of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 in Rural Côte d’Ivoire
Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Edgard V. Adjogoua, Chantal Akoua-Koffi, Claudia Hedemann, Grit Schubert, Heinz Ellerbrok, Siv Aina Jensen Leendertz, Georg Pauli, and Fabian H. Leendertz
Table 1
Characteristics of persons positive for HTLV-1 or STLV-1 in a study of the origin of HTLV-1, rural western Africa, 2006–2007*
| Study participant†, sex | Infecting subtype | Minimum observed distance to any STLV-1, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of contact and nonhuman primate contacted |
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| LTR | env | Hunting | Dismembering | Preparation or cooking | Eating | |||
| Gah050, M | STLV-1I/SM | 0.6 | 0.4 | None | Monkeys, chimp | Monkeys, chimp | Monkeys, chimp | |
| Gul014, F | HTLV-1A | 3.2 | 2.9 | None | None | Monkey, chimp | Monkeys, chimp | |
| Kei005, F | STLV-1I/SM | 0.6 | 0.5 | None | Monkeys | Monkeys | Monkeys | |
| Kei025, M | STLV-1J | 0.3 | 0.2 | None | Monkeys | None | Monkeys | |
| Kei075, F | HTLV-1A | 3.0 | 3.0 | None | None | Monkeys | Monkeys | |
| Pau002, F | HTLV-1A | 3.2 | 2.5 | None | None | Monkeys | Monkeys | |
| Pau009, M | STLV-1I/SM | 0 | 0.2 | Monkeys, chimp | Monkeys, chimp | None | Monkeys, chimp | |
| Pon002, F | HTLV-1A | 4.2 | 2.8 | None | Monkeys | Monkeys | Monkeys | |
| Tie005, F | HTLV-1A | 4.0 | 2.5 | None | Monkeys | Monkeys | Monkeys | |
| Tie011, F | HTLV-1A | 4.5 | 2.4 | None | Monkeys | Monkeys | Monkeys | |
*Gray shading indicates infections with STLV-1–like HTLV-1 (as determined through phylogenetic analyses). Minimum distances were calculated by using the same datasets as for phylogenetic analyses (see Technical Appendix). HTLV-1, human T-lymphotropic virus type1; STLV-1, simian T-lymphotropic virus type1; LTR, long terminal repeat; chimp, chimpanzee(s).
†First 3 letters refer to the persons’ village of residence.
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