Figure 1.
Box-plot comparing the age of the seropositive and seronegative relatives of HTLV-1/HTLV-2 carriers from Belém.
Source: This image was made exclusively for the paper from data collected in Tropical Medicine Center, Belém, Pará, Brazil.* Chi-square test.
Table 1.
Frequency of positive HTLV-1/HTLV-2 tests in relatives of HTLV carriers from Belém.
Table 2.
Frequency of positive HTLV-1/HTLV-2 tests in mother-offspring and spouse-spouse dyads of patients from Belém.
Figure 2.
Schematic representation of the distribution of seropositive cases in the couples of families with HTLV-1/HTLV-2.
Source: This image was made exclusively for the paper from data collected in Tropical Medicine Center, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Figure 3.
Heredogram showing the probable transmission routes of HTLV-1 in a family which suffered two deaths by T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Source: This image was made exclusively for the paper from data collected in Tropical Medicine Center, Belém, Pará, Brazil. NHL: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.