Origin of HIV type 1 in colonial French Equatorial Africa?

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-8

  Chitnis, Amit ^a   Rawls, Diana ^a   Moore, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; COLONIALISM; FRANCE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HIV-2; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033987868     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922200309548     Document Type: Article

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