HIV type 1 subtype E in commercial sex workers and injection drug users in Southern Vietnam

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 841-843

  Nerurkar, Vivek R ^a,f   Nguyen, Hien Tran ^b   Dashwood, Wan Mohaiza ^a   Hoffmann, Peter R ^a   Yin, Chaoquan ^a   Morens, David M ^c   Kaplan, Andrew H ^d   Detels, Roger ^e   Yanagihara, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Leahi Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DRUG ABUSE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; VIET NAM;

EID: 0029943478     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.1996.12.841     Document Type: Note

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