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Volume 11, Number 5, May 2005

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

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

 
 
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Figure 1. Representative seroreactivity pattern on Western blot that contains a recombinant GD 21 (common to human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 [HTLV-1] and HTLV-2) and 2 synthetic peptides specific for HTLV-1 (MTA-1) and HTLV-2 (K55). Lane 1, HTLV-1–positive control; lane 2, HTLV-2–positive control; lane 3, HTLV-1/2 negative control; lane 4–9, 6 plasma samples from the HTLV-1–positive women of Ambae Island displaying strong reactivity to GD 21 (faint band for VAN 251), to p19 and p24 (faint band for VAN 54), p26, p28, p32, p36 (faint bands for VAN 54 and AWM), and to MTA-1.

 

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