Table 2. Epidemiologic data and GenBank accession numbers of the human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) strains of the Melanesian subtype C.

Country of origin	Age (y)	Sex	Birth	Residence	Clinical status	Virus name	env GenBank accession no.	LTR GenBank accession no.
Vanuatu	45	F	Ambae	Filakalaka	AC	HTLV-1 VAN 54	AY549879	AY549875
	36	F	Ambae	Ndui Ndui	AC	HTLV-1 VAN 136	AY549880	AY549876
	42	F	Ambae	Vinangwangwe	AC	HTLV-1 VAN 251	AY549881	AY549877
	42	F	Ambae	Lolobinanungwa	AC	HTLV-1 VAN 335	AY549882	AY549878
Papua New Guinea	21	M	Madang	Madang	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 1	L02533	NA
	60	F	Madang	Madang	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 2	M94197	NA
	31	M	Madang	Madang	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 7	U11576	NA
Solomon Islands	39	F	New Georgia	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 3	M94198	NA
	60	F	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 4	M94199	NA
	58	M	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 5	M94200	L02534
	38	M	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	TSP/HAM	HTLV-1 MEL 6	M93099	NA
	49	M	New Georgia	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 8	U11578	NA
	75	M	Rendova	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 9	U11580	NA
	13	F	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 10	U11566	NA
	42	F	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 11	U11568	NA
	60	F	Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal	AC	HTLV-1 MEL 12	U11570	NA
Australia	NA	NA	NA	NA	AC	HTLV-1 MSHR-1	M92818	NA

*LTR, long terminal repeat; F, female; M, male; AC, Asymptomatic carrier; TSP/HAM, tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1–associated myelopathy; NA, not available.