Circulation of subtype A and gagA/envB recombinant HIV type 1 strains among injecting drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia, correlates with geographical origin of infections

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1577-1583

  Lukashov, Vladimir V ^a   Huismans, Raymond ^a   Rakhmanova, Aza G ^b,c   Lisitsina, Zoya N ^b,c   Akhtyrskaya, Natalia A ^b,c   Vlasov, Nikolai N ^b,c   Melnick, Oleg B ^b,c   Goudsmit, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH WESTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER I I MECHNIKOV   (Russian Federation)

^c City AIDS Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; USSR; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, ENV; GENES, GAG; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0033589710     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922299309874     Document Type: Article

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