HTLV-1

or HTLV-I

human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1: a type of retrovirus that causes a rare form of leukemia, primarily occurring in southern Japan and the Caribbean islands.

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HTLV-1 spreads through breastfeeding, sex, blood transfusion and sharing of needles.

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The men were infected with HTLV-1, which is rarely seen in England and the United States.

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The virus linked to the lymphoma — HTLV-1 — infects millions of people around the world, with the highest known prevalence in Japan, Africa, South America, the Caribbean and parts of Australia.

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Yet HTLV-1's modest death toll, and the decades that often go by between infection and disease, have kept it out of the limelight.

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Gallo’s lab had recently discovered the first human retrovirus, a leukemia and lymphoma virus known as HTLV-1.

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