Surveillance of human retroviruses in blood samples from patients with hepatitis B and C in São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract INTRODUCTION Human retroviruses and the hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV, respectively) share routes of transmission; thus, coinfections occur and could alter subsequent disease outcomes. A preliminary study on human T-lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1/2) in serum samples fro...

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Main Authors: Adele Caterino-de-Araujo, Karoline Rodrigues Campos, Tamirez Villas Boas Petrucci, Rafael Xavier da Silva, Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos, Regina Célia Moreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
hiv
hbv
hcv
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822020000100303&lng=en&tlng=en