Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 infective dermatitis in central Australia.
Einsiedel Lloyd, Cassar Olivier, Gordon Lynne, Gessain Antoine. 2013-08-01. .
ARTICLE, (2013-08-01 ) - PUBLISHEDVERSION - English (en-GB)
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Subject
HTLV-1, HTLV-1 associated infective dermatitis Indigenous health, Australia, MESH: Adult, MESH: Australia, MESH: Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/genetics, MESH: Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/isolation & purification*, MESH: Humans, MESH: Male, MESH: Melanesia, MESH: Staphylococcal Infections/virology*, MESH: Dermatitis/microbiology, MESH: Dermatitis/virology*, MESH: HTLV-I Infections/microbiology, MESH: HTLV-I Infections/virology*, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Domains
Santé, Biologie, Sciences du vivant
Description
International audience The Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a single-stranded RNA retrovirus that preferentially infects CD4+ T cells. The spectrum of diseases that are associated with the most frequent genotype, the HTLV-1 cosmopolitan subtype A, has been well described. In contrast, very few cases of HTLV-1 related diseases have been reported for the HTLV-1 subtype C variant, which is endemic to Australia and the nearby islands of Melanesia. Here we describe the first case of infective dermatitis associated with the HTLV-1 Australo-Melanesian subtype C. This was complicated by repeated episodes of invasive infection with Staphylococcus aureus and illustrates the life-threatening nature of infective dermatitis among HTLV-1 carriers who live in conditions of social disadvantage.
Creators
Einsiedel, Lloyd, Cassar, Olivier, Gordon, Lynne, Gessain, Antoine
Contributors
Northern Territory Rural Clinical School ; Flinders University [Adelaide, Australia], Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes (EPVO (UMR_3569 / U-Pasteur_3)) ; Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Flinders Medical Centre
Sources
ISSN: 1873-5967, Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, https://hal-pasteur.archives-ouvertes.fr/pasteur-01370949, Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, 2013, 57 (4), pp.370-3. ⟨10.1016/j.jcv.2013.04.022⟩
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jcv.2013.04.022
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/23707414
