Abstract
It has been estimated that worldwide more than 20 million people are infected by HTLV-1. In Brazil, there are approximately 2.5 million carriers of this virus, which places the country on the first position regarding the absolute number of infected individuals. HTLV-1 is associated with two main clinical diseases: i) adult T-cell (ATLL) leukemia / lymphoma; and ii) progressive myelopathy …