id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-004345-7s2m9v2k Ishak, Ricardo The challenge of describing the epidemiology of HTLV in the Amazon region of Brazil 2020-02-14 .txt text/plain 6050 276 46 HTLV human infections in the Amazon region of Brazil have been recorded by several studies that considered widely different populations, including blood donors, pregnant women, urban familial aggregates and native indigenous people. Human infections by HTLV in the Amazon region of Brazil have been recorded by several studies involving blood donors [82, [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] , pregnant women [103] [104] [105] [106] , urban familial aggregates [42] and native Indians [6, 56] (Fig. 1) . A large distribution of HTLV-2 was shown among Indians communities not only in the State of Para but also in the Amazon area of Brazil, reaching confirmed prevalence rates of more than 40% [6, 51, 56, 63] among some Indian communities and the detection of a new molecular subtype (HTLV-2c) that was soon also described in urban areas outside of the ARB [6, 33, 50, 51, 116] . Molecular epidemiology of human T-lymphotropic virus type II infection in Amerindian and urban populations of the Amazon region of Brazil ./cache/cord-004345-7s2m9v2k.txt ./txt/cord-004345-7s2m9v2k.txt