HIV-1 subtype C in commercial sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 120-127

  Hussein, Mintewab ^a   Abebe, Almaz ^b   Pollakis, Georgios ^c   Brouwer, Margreet ^c   Petros, Beyene ^d   Fontanet, Arnaud L ^b   Rinke De Wit, Tobias F ^b  

^a ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b Ethio Netherlands AIDS Research Project ENARP   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Commercial sex workers; Ethiopia; HIV 1 subtype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHIOPIA; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 0034143822     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200002010-00003     Document Type: Article

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