Human T-lymphotropic Virus Antigens
The human T-lymphotropic Virus, abbreviated as HTLV, is one kind of human retroviruses and are known to cause a type of cancer called adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and a demyelinating disease called HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). The HTLVs belong to a larger group of primates T-lymphotropic viruses (PTLVs). Until now, four types of HTLVs…