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ArticleEmerging microbes & infections2020

Multiple recombinant events in human T-cell Leukemia virus Type 1: complete sequences of recombinant African strains.

Olivier Cassar, Alexandra Desrames, Ambroise Marçais, Olivier Gout, Graham P Taylor, Olivier Hermine, Vicente Soriano, Carmen de Mendoza, Océane Dehan, Margot Le Mener and 2 more

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Article in Emerging microbes & infections, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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12 authors.

Olivier CassarUnité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3569 CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5331-6357
Alexandra DesramesUnité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3569 CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
Ambroise MarçaisService d'Hématologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
Olivier GoutDépartement de Neurologie, Fondation Rothschild, Paris, France.
Graham P TaylorDepartment of Infectious Disease, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Olivier HermineService d'Hématologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
Vicente SorianoUNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Madrid, Spain.
Carmen de MendozaInternal Medicine Laboratory Puerta de Hierro Research Institute, University Hospital Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
Océane DehanUnité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3569 CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
Margot Le MenerUnité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3569 CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
Philippe V AfonsoUnité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3569 CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4828-3797
Antoine GessainUnité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3569 CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Africa is the largest endemic area for HTLV-1, with many molecular genotypes. We previously demonstrated that some strains from North Africa (a-NA clade) originated from a recombinant event between Senegalese and West African strains. A series of 52 new HTLV-1 strains from 13 North and West African countries were sequenced in the LTR region and/or a env gene fragment. Four samples from French Guyanese of African origin were also added. Furthermore, 7 complete sequences from different genotypes were characterized. Phylogenetic analyses showed that most of the new African strains belong to the Cosmopolitan a-genotype. Ten new strains from the a-NA clade were found in Morocco, Western Sahara, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. A new a-G-Rec clade, which arose from a distinct recombination event between Senegalese and West African strains, was identified in Guinea and Ghana. The complete sequences suggest that recombination occur in the LTR as well as the env/pol region of the genome, thus a-NA and a-G-Rec strains have a mosaic profile with genetic segments from either a-WA or a-Sen strains. Our work demonstrates that recombination in HTLV-1 may not be as rare an event as previously proposed.

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AfricaDNA, ViralGenome, ViralGenotypeHumansHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1Leukemia, T-CellPhylogenyPhylogeographyRecombination, GeneticTerminal Repeat SequencesDNA, ViralAfricaHTLV-1HTLV-1 complete genomemolecular epidemiologyrecombinationreverse transcription

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PMCPMC7269087

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