Cassar Olivier, Capuano Corinne, Meertens Laurent, Chungue Eliane, Gessain Antoine
Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, France.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 May;11(5):706-10. doi: 10.3201/eid1105.041015.
Four of 391 Ni-Vanuatu women were infected with variants of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Melanesian subtype C. These strains had env nucleotide sequences approximately 99% similar to each other and diverging from the main molecular subtypes of HTLV-1 by 6% to 9%. These strains were likely introduced during ancient human population movements in Melanesia.
在391名瓦努阿图妇女中,有4人感染了1型人类T细胞白血病病毒(HTLV-1)美拉尼西亚C亚型变体。这些毒株的env核苷酸序列彼此相似度约为99%,与HTLV-1的主要分子亚型相差6%至9%。这些毒株可能是在古代人类在美拉尼西亚迁徙期间传入的。