Low genetic diversity of the Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV-1) in an endemic area of the Brazilian Amazon basin

Akim Felipe Santos Nobre; Danilo de Souza Almeida; Louise Canto Ferreira; Deimy Lima Ferreira; Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior; Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana; Ingrid Christiane Silva; Bruna Teles Pinheiro; Stephen Francis Ferrari; Alexandre da Costa Linhares; Edna Aoba Ishikawa; Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa; Maísa Silva de Sousa

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194184

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Low genetic diversity of the Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV-1) in an endemic area of the Brazilian Amazon basin

Akim Felipe Santos Nobre ,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

* E-mail: akimnobre@hotmail.com

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8501-9346

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Danilo de Souza Almeida ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Louise Canto Ferreira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Deimy Lima Ferreira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ananindeua, Pará, Brasil
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Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ananindeua, Pará, Brasil
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Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Ingrid Christiane Silva ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Bruna Teles Pinheiro ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Stephen Francis Ferrari ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Sergipe, Brazil
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Alexandre da Costa Linhares ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ananindeua, Pará, Brasil
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Edna Aoba Ishikawa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Maísa Silva de Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: Danilo de Souza Almeida, Louise Canto Ferreira, Deimy Lima Ferreira, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior, Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana, Ingrid Christiane Silva, Bruna Teles Pinheiro, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Alexandre da Costa Linhares, Edna Aoba Ishikawa, Rita Catarina Medeiros Sousa, Maísa Silva de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil
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Low genetic diversity of the Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV-1) in an endemic area of the Brazilian Amazon basin

Akim Felipe Santos Nobre,
Danilo de Souza Almeida,
Louise Canto Ferreira,
Deimy Lima Ferreira,
Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior,
Maria de Nazaré do Socorro de Almeida Viana,
Ingrid Christiane Silva,
Bruna Teles Pinheiro,
Stephen Francis Ferrari,
Alexandre da Costa Linhares

Published: March 20, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194184

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