High frequency of defective nef alleles in a long-term survivor with nonprogressive human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 7752-7764

  Mariani, Roberto ^a,b   Kirchhoff, Frank ^c,d   Greenough, Thomas C ^e   Sullivan, John L ^e   Desrosiers, Ronald C ^c   Skowronski, Jacek ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029846223     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7752-7764.1996     Document Type: Article

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