HTLV-1 and HIV-2 infection are associated with increased mortality in a rural West African community.

BACKGROUND: Survival of people with HIV-2 and HTLV-1 infection is better than that of HIV-1 infected people, but long-term follow-up data are rare. We compared mortality rates of HIV-1, HIV-2, and HTLV-1 infected subjects with those of retrovirus-uninfected people in a rural community in Guinea-Bis...

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Main Authors: van Tienen, C, Schim van der Loeff, M, Peterson, I, Cotten, M, Andersson, S, Holmgren, B, Vincent, T, de Silva, T, Rowland-Jones, S, Aaby, P, Whittle, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011