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The epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, infectious complications, and management of HIV are covered in Chapter 109, Chapter 110, Chapter 111, Chapter 112, Chapter 113 . HIV types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are members of the Lentivirus genus…

Epidemiology Human T-cell lymphotropic viruses (HTLV) include four types (HTLV-1, HTLV-2, HTLV-3, and HTLV-4). HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 were first reported in 1980 and 1982, respectively, and are the two most clinically important HTLVs. , Infections with HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 were…

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