The World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS Proposal for Standardization of HIV Sequence Nomenclature

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1355-1358

  Korber, Bette T m ^a,b   Osmanov, Saladin ^c   Esparza, Jose ^c   Myers, Gerald ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

AIDS VACCINES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMAN; TERMINOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0028148319     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.1994.10.1355     Document Type: Article

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