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SUBMITTER: de Fatima Castro Mendes M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7203249 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Fátima Castro Mendes Maria M de Ribamar Oliveira Lima José J de Oliveira de Melo Bruna B de Maria Fernandes da Silva Pinto Conceição C Maia Hermerson Sousa HS Ferro Thiago Azevedo Feitosa TAF Monteiro Silvio Gomes SG Stancioli Edel Figueiredo Barbosa EFB Bomfim Maria Rosa Quaresma MRQ
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20200128 2
The human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) has a worldwide distribution. HTLV is endemic in some states in the northeastern region of Brazil. This study investigated the prevalence of HTLV-1/2 in 713 pregnant women attended at the Central Laboratory of Public Health of Maranhão (LACEN-MA) between February 2015 and May 2017. Serological screening was performed by chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA), and reactive sera were subsequently confirmed by Western blot (WB) analysis. Five sa ...[more]