Transmission (HTLV-II)

Human Bite Spreads Virus

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 15th, 1999

Human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) may have been transmitted via a human bite.

W.V. Bolton and colleagues reported on their investigation of this case in the January 1999 issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology ("Molecular Evidence for Transmission of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type II Infection by a Human Bite," Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 1999;37(1):238-240).

The infected individual was a female Australian blood donor.

Bolton et al. said their investigation identified a human bite as the likely mode of transmission. This was confirmed by nucleotide sequencing of the proviral tax/rex from both the...

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