title: HTLV-I-like viral particles in spinal cord cells in Jamaican tropical spastic paraparesis.
abstract: Viral-like particles morphologically identical to human T-lymphotropic virus type I or II, but distinct from human T-lymphotropic virus type III, have been seen by electron microscopy in spinal cord tissue from a Jamaican tropical spastic paraparesis patient who was known to be positive for human T-lymphotropic virus I antibody before death. This is the first electron microscopy report on a patient from an endemic tropical spastic paraparesis region.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Liberski
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rodgers-Johnson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Char
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piccardo
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Gajdusek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017977:Deltaretrovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014329:Tropical Climate