List of works by Antoine Gessain

A Novel Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type 1c Molecular Variant in an Indigenous Individual from New Caledonia, Melanesia

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A major locus on chromosome 3p22 conferring predisposition to human herpesvirus 8 infection

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A new HTLV type II subtype A isolate in an HIV type 1-infected prostitute from Cameroon, Central Africa

scientific article published on August 1995

A new and frequent human T-cell leukemia virus indeterminate Western blot pattern: epidemiological determinants and PCR results in central African inhabitants

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A new sensitive indicator cell line reveals cross-transactivation of the viral LTR by gorilla and chimpanzee simian foamy viruses

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

A novel gamma 2-herpesvirus of the Rhadinovirus 2 lineage in chimpanzees

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Activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule (ALCAM) facilitates trafficking of HTLV-1 infected lymphocytes through the blood brain barrier

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma in a Caucasian Patient After Sexual Transmission of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1.

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Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and HTLV-1.

scientific article published on October 2007

African great apes are naturally infected with roseoloviruses closely related to human herpesvirus 7

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Alteration of blood-brain barrier integrity by retroviral infection

scientific article published in November 2008

Analyses of HTLV-1 sequences suggest interaction between ORF-I mutations and HAM/TSP outcome

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Anti HIV-2 serological screening in Portuguese populations native from or having had close contact with Africa

scientific article published on January 1987

Antibodies to human T-lymphotropic virus type-I in patients with tropical spastic paraparesis

scientific article published on August 1985

Application of broad-spectrum resequencing microarray for genotyping rhabdoviruses

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Arboviruses and Muscle Disorders: From Disease to Cell Biology

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Blood-brain barrier and retroviral infections

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Both orf-I isoforms, p12 and p8, are required for efficient HTLV-1 infection and persistence

scientific article published on 7 January 2014

Characterization of HTLV-I isolates and T lymphoid cell lines derived from French West Indian patients with tropical spastic paraparesis

scientific article published on February 1989

Characterization of reemerging chikungunya virus

scientific article published in June 2007

Classic Kaposi sarcoma in 3 unrelated Turkish children born to consanguineous kindreds

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Clinical associations of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 infection in an indigenous Australian population

scientific article published on 16 January 2014

Co-dependence of HTLV-1 p12 and p8 functions in virus persistence

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Cocirculation of Two env Molecular Variants, of Possible Recombinant Origin, in Gorilla and Chimpanzee Simian Foamy Virus Strains from Central Africa

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Combination of an unbiased amplification method and a resequencing microarray for detecting and genotyping equine arteritis virus

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Complete Genome Sequences of Two Chikungunya Viruses Isolated in the Central African Republic in the 1970s and 1980s

scientific article published on 02 March 2017

Complete sequence of a novel highly divergent simian T-cell lymphotropic virus from wild-caught red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus) from Cameroon: a new primate T-lymphotropic virus type 3 subtype

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Construction and characterization of a human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 infectious molecular clone

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Cross-species transmission of simian foamy virus to humans in rural Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article published on 9 November 2011

Cytoplasmic Localization of HTLV-1 HBZ Protein: A Biomarker of HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP).

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DC-SIGN facilitates fusion of dendritic cells with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-infected cells

scientific article published on May 2006

Development and validation of a multiplex real-time PCR assay for simultaneous genotyping and human T-lymphotropic virus type 1, 2, and 3 proviral load determination

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Differences in the ability of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and HTLV-2 tax to inhibit p53 function

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Different selective pressures shape the evolution of Toll-like receptors in human and African great ape populations

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Differentiation-dependent susceptibility of human muscle cells to Zika virus infection

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Direct evidence for a chronic CD8+-T-cell-mediated immune reaction to tax within the muscle of a human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type 1-infected patient with sporadic inclusion body myositis

scientific article published on October 2004

Discovery and characterization of auxiliary proteins encoded by type 3 simian T-cell lymphotropic viruses

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Discovery of a new human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-3) in Central Africa

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Divergent simian T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (STLV-3) in wild-caught Papio hamadryas papio from Senegal: widespread distribution of STLV-3 in Africa

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Eleventh International Foamy Virus Conference-Meeting Report

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Epidemic History and Iatrogenic Transmission of Blood-borne Viruses in Mid-20th Century Kinshasa.

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Epidemiological Aspects and World Distribution of HTLV-1 Infection

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Epidemiology and genetic variability of HHV-8/KSHV in Pygmy and Bantu populations in Cameroon

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Evidence That Zika Virus Is Transmitted by Breastfeeding to Newborn A129 (Ifnar1 Knock-Out) Mice and Is Able to Infect and Cross a Tight Monolayer of Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Evolutionary insights into the high worldwide prevalence of MBL2 deficiency alleles

scientific article published on 2 August 2006

Excretion of Cell-Free and Cell-Associated Zika Virus into Breast Milk of Infected Dams and Identification of Antiviral Factors

scientific article published in 2022

Frequent and recent human acquisition of simian foamy viruses through apes' bites in central Africa

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Gem-induced cytoskeleton remodeling increases cellular migration of HTLV-1-infected cells, formation of infected-to-target T-cell conjugates and viral transmission

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Genetic characterization of simian foamy viruses infecting humans

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Genetic diversity and molecular evolution of human and non-human primate Gammaherpesvirinae

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Genomic history of human monkey pox infections in the Central African Republic between 2001 and 2018

scientific article published on 22 June 2021

HHV-8-associated Kaposi sarcoma in a child with IFNgammaR1 deficiency

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HTLV-1 positive and negative T cells cloned from infected individuals display telomerase and telomere genes deregulation that predominate in activated but untransformed CD4+ T cells

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HTLV-1 propels untransformed CD4 lymphocytes into the cell cycle while protecting CD8 cells from death

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HTLV-1-associated inflammatory myopathies: low proviral load and moderate inflammation in 13 patients from West Indies and West Africa

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

HTLV-1-induced leukotriene B4 secretion by T cells promotes T cell recruitment and virus propagation

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HTLV-1-infected CD4+ T-cells display alternative exon usages that culminate in adult T-cell leukemia

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HTLV-1 and host barriers interactions

scientific article published on 01 February 2017

HTLV-2 in Central Africa: HTLV-2 subtype B strains similar to those found in Amerindian tribes are endemic in Bakola Pygmies from south Cameroon but not in surrounding Bantus and Baka Pygmies

scientific article published on 6 June 2011

HTLV-2B strains, similar to those found in several Amerindian tribes, are endemic in central African Bakola Pygmies

scientific article published in May 2011

HTLV-3/4 and simian foamy retroviruses in humans: discovery, epidemiology, cross-species transmission and molecular virology

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HTLV-3/STLV-3 and HTLV-4 viruses: discovery, epidemiology, serology and molecular aspects

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Hepatitis B and C virus infections in the three Pygmy groups in Cameroon

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High prevalence of human T-cell leukemia virus type-1b genotype among blood donors in Gabon, Central Africa

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Higher HTLV-1c proviral loads are associated with blood stream infections in an Indigenous Australian population

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Higher human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 subtype C proviral loads are associated with bronchiectasis in indigenous australians: results of a case-control study

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Human Herpesvirus 8 Genotype E in Patients with Kaposi Sarcoma, Peru

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1-Induced Overexpression of Activated Leukocyte Cell Adhesion Molecule (ALCAM) Facilitates Trafficking of Infected Lymphocytes through the Blood-Brain Barrier

scientific article published on June 2016

Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 infection in an Indigenous Australian population: epidemiological insights from a hospital-based cohort study

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Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus types I and II (HTLV-I/II) in French Guiana: clinical and molecular epidemiology

scientific article published on September 2003

Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 molecular variants, Vanuatu, Melanesia

scientific article published in May 2005

Human T-cell leukemia virus type 2 produces a spliced antisense transcript encoding a protein that lacks a classic bZIP domain but still inhibits Tax2-mediated transcription

scientific article published on 14 July 2009

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 Tax represses c-Myb-dependent transcription through activation of the NF-kappaB pathway and modulation of coactivator usage

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Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 subtype C molecular variants among indigenous australians: new insights into the molecular epidemiology of HTLV-1 in Australo-Melanesia

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Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3: complete nucleotide sequence and characterization of the human tax3 protein

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Human T-cell-leukemia virus type I in post-transfusional spastic paraparesis: complete proviral sequence from uncultured blood cells

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Human blood-brain barrier disruption by retroviral-infected lymphocytes: role of myosin light chain kinase in endothelial tight-junction disorganization

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Human herpesvirus 8 primary infection occurs during childhood in Cameroon, Central Africa

scientific article published on April 1999

Human herpesvirus 8 serological markers and viral load in patients with AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma in Central African Republic

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Human herpesvirus 8, Southern Siberia

scientific article published on March 2010

Human muscle satellite cells as targets of Chikungunya virus infection

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Identification of a novel neuropathogenic Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus

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Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of recombinant human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type 1 NYVAC and naked DNA vaccine candidates in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus).

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Immunohistochemical and virological features of HTLV-1-associated myosites: a study of 13 patients from West Indies and Africa.

scientific article published on 6 June 2011

Improved assembly procedure of viral RNA genomes amplified with Phi29 polymerase from new generation sequencing data

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In vivo cellular tropism of gorilla simian foamy virus in blood of infected humans

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In vivo genetic mutations define predominant functions of the human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus p12I protein

scientific article published on 12 September 2008

Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set

scientific article published in April 2009

Inherited human OX40 deficiency underlying classic Kaposi sarcoma of childhood

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

Inhibition of Chikungunya virus infection in cultured human muscle cells by furin inhibitors: impairment of the maturation of the E2 surface glycoprotein

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Innate sensing of foamy viruses by human hematopoietic cells

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Intrahost variations in the envelope receptor-binding domain (RBD) of HTLV-1 and STLV-1 primary isolates

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Kaposi Sarcoma of Childhood: Inborn or Acquired Immunodeficiency to Oncogenic HHV-8

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

Kaposi sarcoma, oral malformations, mitral dysplasia, and scoliosis associated with 7q34-q36.3 heterozygous terminal deletion.

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Kaposi's sarcoma in Morocco: a pathological study with immunostaining for human herpesvirus-8 LNA-1.

scientific article published on August 2005

Kaposi’s sarcoma in a child with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

article by Capucine Picard et al published 7 April 2006 in European Journal of Pediatrics

Litchi-associated acute encephalitis in children, Northern Vietnam, 2004-2009.

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Localization, quantification and interaction with host factors of endogenous HTLV-1 HBZ protein in infected cells and ATL

scientific article published on 4 July 2015

Lymphoid organs as a major reservoir for human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 in experimentally infected squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus): provirus expression, persistence, and humoral and cellular immune responses

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Maternal traces of deep common ancestry and asymmetric gene flow between Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu-speaking farmers

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Mechanisms of viral emergence and interspecies transmission: the exemple of simian foamy viruses in Central Africa

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Modes of transmission and genetic diversity of foamy viruses in a Macaca tonkeana colony

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Molecular Characterization of the Kamese Virus, an Unassigned Rhabdovirus, Isolated from Culex pruina in the Central African Republic

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Molecular characterization of three Zika flaviviruses obtained from sylvatic mosquitoes in the Central African Republic

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Molecular diagnostic and genetic characterization of highly pathogenic viruses: application during Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus outbreaks in Eastern Europe and the Middle East

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

Molecular epidemiology of merkel cell polyomavirus: evidence for geographically related variant genotypes

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Molecular epidemiology of the HHV-8 K1 gene from Moroccan patients with Kaposi's sarcoma

scientific article published on 21 June 2006

Mother-to-Child Transmission of HTLV-1 Epidemiological Aspects, Mechanisms and Determinants of Mother-to-Child Transmission

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Mother-to-child transmission of HTLV-1: in vitro study of HTLV-1 passage across a tight human epithelial barrier

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Mother-to-child transmission of HTLV-1:in vitro study of HTLV-1 passage across a tight human epithelial barrier

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Multicentric Castleman disease in an HHV8-infected child born to consanguineous parents with systematic review

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Muscle wasting induced by HTLV-1 tax-1 protein: an in vitro and in vivo study

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New insights into prevalence, genetic diversity, and proviral load of human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2 in pregnant women in Gabon in equatorial central Africa

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

New strain of human T lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type 3 in a Pygmy from Cameroon with peculiar HTLV serologic results

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No evidence for viral sequences in five lepidic adenocarcinomas (former "BAC") by a high-throughput sequencing approach

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Non-malarial infectious diseases of antenatal care in pregnant women in Franceville, Gabon

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Northern African strains of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 arose from a recombination event

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Novel gamma-1 herpesviruses identified in free-ranging new world monkeys (golden-handed tamarin [Saguinus midas], squirrel monkey [Saimiri sciureus], and white-faced saki [Pithecia pithecia]) in French Guiana

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Novel gamma-2-herpesvirus of the Rhadinovirus 2 lineage in gibbons

scientific article published in May 2004

Novel human herpesvirus 8 subtype D strains in Vanuatu, Melanesia

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Obituary for guy de thé.

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Origin, evolution and innate immune control of simian foamy viruses in humans

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Origins and genetic diversity of pygmy hunter-gatherers from Western Central Africa

scientific article published on 5 February 2009

Presence of a functional but dispensable nuclear export signal in the HTLV-2 Tax protein

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Productive Infection of Mouse Mammary Glands and Human Mammary Epithelial Cells by Zika Virus

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Productive infection of human skeletal muscle cells by pandemic and seasonal influenza A(H1N1) viruses.

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Prolonged myalgia in Sindbis virus infection: case description and in vitro infection of myotubes and myoblasts

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Reducing the global burden of HTLV-1 infection: An agenda for research and action

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Resequencing microarray technology for genotyping human papillomavirus in cervical smears

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Restriction of foamy viruses by APOBEC cytidine deaminases

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Serological and Molecular Methods to Study Epidemiological Aspects of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Infection

scientific article published on January 2017

Serological, epidemiological, and molecular differences between human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type 1 (HTLV-1)-seropositive healthy carriers and persons with HTLV-I Gag indeterminate Western blot patterns from the Caribbean

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Seroprevalence and molecular epidemiology of human T-Cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and HTLV-2 in blood donors from Dakar, Senegal

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Severe demyelinating myelopathy with low human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 expression after transfusion in an immunosuppressed patient

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Simian Immunodeficiency Virus seroreactivity in inhabitants from rural Cameroon frequently in contact with non-human primates

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Simian T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 from Mandrillus sphinx as a simian counterpart of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 subtype D.

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Simian foamy virus transmission from apes to humans, rural Cameroon

scientific article (publication date: September 2007)

Spindle cells and their role in Kaposi's sarcoma

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Strong correlations of anti-viral capsid antigen antibody levels in first-degree relatives from families with Epstein-Barr virus-related lymphomas

scientific article published on April 2009

Tax gene expression and cell cycling but not cell death are selected during HTLV-1 infection in vivo

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The epigenomic landscape of African rainforest hunter-gatherers and farmers

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The human HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 retroviruses: new members of the HTLV family

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The imprint of the Slave Trade in an African American population: mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome and HTLV-1 analysis in the Noir Marron of French Guiana

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The receptor complex associated with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) Env-mediated binding and entry is distinct from, but overlaps with, the receptor complexes of HTLV-1 and HTLV-2.

scientific article published on 11 March 2009

Transcription profile of cells infected with human T-cell leukemia virus type I compared with activated lymphocytes

scientific article published on June 2002

Transcytosis of HTLV-1 across a tight human epithelial barrier and infection of subepithelial dendritic cells

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Tropical spastic paraparesis and HTLV-1 associated myelopathy: clinical, epidemiological, virological and therapeutic aspects

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Two distinct variants of simian foamy virus in naturally infected mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and cross-species transmission to humans

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Variant human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1c and adult T-cell leukemia, Australia

scientific article published on October 2013

Viral latency in blood and saliva of simian foamy virus-infected humans

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Zika Virus Requires the Expression of Claudin-7 for Optimal Replication in Human Endothelial Cells

scientific article published on 20 September 2021