Failure to detect evidence of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type I and type II in blood donors with isolated gag antibodies to HTLV-I/II.

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Failure to detect evidence of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type I and type II in blood donors with isolated gag antibodies to HTLV-I/II.

identifier:	1482719
description:	epitope description:PRIPPKPCPICVGPHWKSDCPT antigen name:Gag polyprotein host organism:Homo sapiens
aggregation:	instance of dataset
availability:	available
primaryPublications:	1627806

study type:	b cell assays
subject species:	Human T-lymphotropic virus 1

fullName:	R B Lal D L Rudolph J E Coligan S K Brodine C R Roberts

method:	ELISA

name:	Failure to detect evidence of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type I and type II in blood donors with isolated gag antibodies to HTLV-I/II.
description:	This peptide has 60% homology to C-terminus of both HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 gag. Serum samples from 42-46% of HTLV indeterminate patients reacted with the epitope.

name:	iedb
homePage:	http://www.iedb.org

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