The reasons to include the serology of human T-lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) in the clinical follow-up of patients with viral hepatitis B and C in Brazil

Karoline Rodrigues Campos; Fabiana Aparecida Alves; Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos; Regina Célia Moreira; Rosa Maria Nascimento Marcusso; Adele Caterino-de-Araujo

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008245

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The reasons to include the serology of human T-lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) in the clinical follow-up of patients with viral hepatitis B and C in Brazil

Karoline Rodrigues Campos,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em HTLV, Centro de Imunologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Coordenadoria de Controle de Doenças, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Fabiana Aparecida Alves,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em HTLV, Centro de Imunologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Coordenadoria de Controle de Doenças, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Hepatites Virais, Centro de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Coordenadoria de Controle de Doenças, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Regina Célia Moreira,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Hepatites Virais, Centro de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Coordenadoria de Controle de Doenças, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Rosa Maria Nascimento Marcusso,

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ambulatório de HTLV, Serviço de Neurologia Clínica, Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas (IIER), São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Adele Caterino-de-Araujo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: caterino@alumni.usp.br, adele.caterino@ial.sp.gov.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em HTLV, Centro de Imunologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Coordenadoria de Controle de Doenças, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0155-6580

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The reasons to include the serology of human T-lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) in the clinical follow-up of patients with viral hepatitis B and C in Brazil

Karoline Rodrigues Campos,
Fabiana Aparecida Alves,
Marcílio Figueiredo Lemos,
Regina Célia Moreira,
Rosa Maria Nascimento Marcusso,
Adele Caterino-de-Araujo

Published: May 26, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008245

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