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Nature Reviews Microbiology 6, 333 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1907

Retroviruses: Integration hotspots for disease?

Susan Jones

A team led by Charles Bangham has compared the integration preferences of human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1) in vitro and in vivo. In a recently published PloS Pathogens paper, Kiran Meekings, Charles Bangham and colleagues report that there is a clear relationship between HTLV-1 integration and disease.