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HTLV-I tax Sequences Missing in Population of Blood Donors

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, August 30th, 1999

HTLV-I tax sequences were absent from a population of healthy blood donors negative for anti-HTLV-I in a recently reported, multicenter, blind study.

The findings represent a discrepancy from previously reported studies, indicated U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researcher Elliot P. Cowan and colleagues ("Absence of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type I tax Sequences in a Population of Normal Blood Donors in the Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC, Area: Results from a Multicenter Study," Transfusion, August 1999;39(8):904-909).

Cowan et al. designed the study to examine the reproducibility of previous results by New York University (NYU)...

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (1999-08-30)

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