Characterization of a highly replicative intergroup M/O human immunodeficiency virus type 1 recombinant isolated from a Cameroonian patient

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 7368-7375

  Peeters, Martine ^a   Liegeois, Florian ^a   Torimiro, Ndongo ^b   Bourgeois, Anke ^b   Mpoudi, Eitel ^b   Vergne, Laurence ^a   Saman, Eric ^c   Delaporte, Eric ^a   Saragosti, Sentob ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Hôpital Militaire de Yaoundé   (Cameroon)

^c INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

^d Inst Med et Epidemiol Africaine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032865615     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.9.7368-7375.1999     Document Type: Article

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