Exposure to hazardous tissue, a fear of 21 Windsor surgery patients
...Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital. The major concern is that the body parts were unscreened for HIV 1 and 2, hepatitis B and C, syphilis and human T-cell lymphotropic virus, or HTLV I and II. The incident has been taken very seriously and all patients were personally notified. Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital has of...Urban Monkeys Source Of Virus Infections
...ing in their host, so it could be many years before physicians know the effects of those virus exposures. One monkey tested positive for simian T-cell lymphotropic virus (STLV), which is believed to be the primate ancestor to the human version of the virus, HTLV, a known cause of T-cell leukemia in people. One ma...Cancer virus protein needed for successful infection
...unimportant for its replication is in fact critically needed by the virus to initiate an infection and to reproduce. The study examined the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and a protein it makes called p13. The protein is one of the virus' so-called accessory proteins, proteins that earlier studies ...Viral protein helps infected T cells stick to uninfected cells
... a protein made by a cancer virus causes infected immune cells to cling to other immune cells, enabling the virus to spread. The virus, the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), is transmitted mainly when infected cells known as T lymphocytes, or T cells, touch uninfected T cells. The finding helps e...Performing monkeys in Asia carry viruses that could jump species to humans
...in their host, so it could be many years before physicians know the effects of those virus exposures. One monkey tested positive for simian T-cell lymphotropic virus (STLV), which is believed to be the primate ancestor to the human version of the virus, HTLV, a known cause of T-cell leukemia in people. One ma...Viral protein influences key cell-signaling pathway
...ulates the cells to divide, helping the virus spread through the body. The study, led by researchers at Ohio State University, examined the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and a protein that it produces called p12. The research is published in the April issue of the journal AIDS Research and Human...Abbott Announces Approval of First Fully Automated Blood Screening Test for HTLV-I/HTLV-II
...creen individual donations of blood and plasma for antibodies to human T -- lymphotropic virus Type I and/or human T -- lymphotropic virus Type II (anti-HTLV-I/HTLV...a for antibodies to human T -- lymphotropic virus Type I and/ or human T -- lymphotropic virus Type II (anti-HTLV-I/HTLV-II). This assay has not been validated for ...