A total of 12 patients, defined as having HAM/TSP by World Health Organization criteria, an HTLV-1–uninfected healthy donor (HD) volunteer screened at the NIH Clinical Center were evaluated in this report. In the patients, the mean age was 56.6 years, and the mean disease duration was 11.8 years. Patients with HAM/TSP were not being treated with any immunosuppressive agents at the time of PBMC collection.
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