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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 109, No. 4, 2014, pp. 448-451
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Bioline Code: oc14067
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 109, No. 4, 2014, pp. 448-451
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Inferences about the global scenario of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 infection using data mining of viral sequences
Araujo, Thessika Hialla Almeida; Barreto, Fernanda Khouri; Alcântara, Luiz Carlos Júnior & Miranda, Aline Cristina Andrade Mota
Abstract
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is mainly associated with two diseases: tropical spastic paraparesis/
HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM) and adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma. This retrovirus infects
five-10 million individuals throughout the world. Previously, we developed a database that annotates sequence data
from GenBank and the present study aimed to describe the clinical, molecular and epidemiological scenarios of
HTLV-1 infection through the stored sequences in this database. A total of 2,545 registered complete and partial
sequences of HTLV-1 were collected and 1,967 (77.3%) of those sequences represented unique isolates. Among these
isolates, 93% contained geographic origin information and only 39% were related to any clinical status. A total of
1,091 sequences contained information about the geographic origin and viral subtype and 93% of these sequences
were identified as subtype “a”. Ethnicity data are very scarce. Regarding clinical status data, 29% of the sequences
were generated from TSP/HAM and 67.8% from healthy carrier individuals. Although the data mining enabled some
inferences about specific aspects of HTLV-1 infection to be made, due to the relative scarcity of data of available
sequences, it was not possible to delineate a global scenario of HTLV-1 infection.
Keywords
HTLV-1; data mining; HTLV-1 database
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