Descriptive study of HTLV infection in a population of pregnant women from the state of Pará, Northern Brazil Estudo descritivo da infecção pelo HTLV em uma população de gestantes do Estado do Pará, norte do Brasil

INTRODUCTION: In Brazil, studies have shown that HTLV seroprevalence among pregnant women varies from 0 to 1.8%. However, this seroprevalence was unknown in the State of Pará, Brazil. The present study describes, for the first time, the HTLV seroprevalence among pregnant women from the State of Pará...

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Main Authors: Carina Guilhon Sequeira, Bruna Pedroso Tamegão-Lopes, Eduardo José Melo dos Santos, Ana Maria Revoredo Ventura, Maria Isabel Moraes-Pinto, Regina Célia de Menezes Succi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012-08-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822012000400007