Y. Koyanagi et al., DUAL INFECTION OF HIV-1 AND HTLV-I IN SOUTH-INDIA - A STUDY ON A PATIENT WITH AIDS-RELATED COMPLEX, Microbiology and immunology, 37(12), 1993, pp. 983-986
A dually HIV- and HTLV-infected ARC patient was found by serological s
tudies in South India. These viruses were isolated and molecular study
showed that the patient had both HIV-P and HTLV-I but not HIV-2 and H
TLV-II. In addition to this, 9 other dually infected persons which inc
lude another full-blown AIDS case have been identified as on July 1993
in South India. Our findings provide an opportunity to clarify geogra
phical distribution of these human retroviruses.