Genetic similarity of HIV type 1 subtype E in a recent outbreak among injecting drug users in northern Vietnam to strains in Guangxi Province of southern China

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1157-1168

  Kato, Kayoko ^a   Shiino, Teiichiro ^a   Kusagawa, Shigeru ^a   Sato, Hironori ^a   Nohtomi, Kyoko ^a   Shibamura, Kayo ^a   Hien, Nguyen Tran ^b   Chi, Pham Kim ^b   Lien, Truong Xuan ^c   Anh, Mai Hoang ^d   Long, Hoang Thuy ^b   Bunyaraksyotin, Gaysorn ^a,e   Fukushima, Yoshiko ^a   Honda, Mitsuo ^a   Wasi, Chantapong ^f   Yamazaki, Shudo ^a   Nagai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Takebe, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Viet Nam)

^d Preventive Medicine Center   (Viet Nam)

^e Regional Medical Science Center   (Thailand)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIET NAM; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENES, GAG; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HTLV-II INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VIETNAM;

EID: 0033200064     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922299310250     Document Type: Article

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