HTLV-I-associated myelopathy and adult T-cell leukemia cases in a family.
Familial cases of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM) and adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), developing in a daughter and father, respectively, are reported. The coexistence of both diseases in a family has not been reported before. This supports the recent findings that ATL and HAM may be brought about by an identical virus on an apparently different immunogenetic background.
Shoji
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First Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Kuwasaki
N
N
Natori
H
H
Kaji
M
M
Miyamoto
Y
Y
Usuku
K
K
Sonoda
S
S
Osame
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies / Q000378:metabolism; D015490:HTLV-I Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D015459:Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology
D015481:HTLV-I Antibodies