HIV type 1 genetic variability in the northern part of Cameroon

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 951-956

  Mboudjeka, Innocent ^a,b   Zekeng, Leopold ^b   Takehisa, Jun ^a   Miura, Tomoyuki ^a   Ido, Eiji ^a   Yamashita, Masahiro ^a   Kaptue, Lazare ^b   Hayami, Masanori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University Hospitals   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAMEROON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; ISLAM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033587592     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922299310458     Document Type: Article

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