Journal:
:iranian biomedical journal
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mohammad salehi medical diagnostic laboratory of neyshabour, center of medical, pathological and genetic diagnostic services, iranian academic center for education, culture and research (acecr), mashhad branch, mashhad, iran
seyyed khalil shokouhi mostafavi department of microbiology, islamic azad university, tehran medical science branch, tehran, iran
abdolmajid ghasemian department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, aja university of medical sciences, tehran, iran
mahmoud gholami department of biology, faculty of sciences, university of isfahan, isfahan, iran
abdolrahim kazemi-vardanjani shahrekord university of medical sciences, shahrek
mohammad karim rahimi department of microbiology, islamic azad university, tehran medical science branch, tehran, iran
background: retroviruses of human t-lymphotropic viruses (htlv-1 and htlv-2) have been demonstrated to be endemic in the north-eastern region of iran. this study aims to determine htlv-1 and htlv-2 prevalence among healthy individuals in neyshabur city during 2010-2014. methods: a total of 8054 blood samples were collected from healthy participants in neyshabur, north-eastern iran. the blood sa...