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Etiology Human T-lymphotropic viruses 1 (HTLV-1) and 2 (HTLV-2) are members of the Deltaretrovirus genus of the Retroviridae family and are single-stranded RNA viruses that encode reverse transcriptase, an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase that transcribes the single-stranded viral RNA into a…
Acknowledgment The authors acknowledge previous contributions of Dennis Murray and Chitra Mani to this chapter. Pneumonia , a Greek word meaning “inflammation of the lungs,” is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in infants and children due to…