Prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus 1/2 in Nigeria's capital territory and meta-analysis of Nigerian studies.

Nneoma Confidence JeanStephanie AnyanwuElijah Ekah EllaMaryam AminuMaleeha AzamMuhammad AjmalHaruna Makonjuola Kazeem

Published in: SAGE open medicine (2019)

This study discovered zero prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus 1/2 from five major hospitals in Nigeria's capital, exposing the importance of confirmatory assays after positive antibody detection assay results. Meta-analysis highlighted the existence of very few reliable Nigerian studies compared to the demography of the nation. Large-scale epidemiological studies and routine screening of risk populations are therefore needed since Nigeria lies in the region of endemicity.

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