First report of CRF03_AB recombinant HIV type 1 in injecting drug users in Ukraine

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1145-1149

  Naganawa, Satoshi ^a,b   Sato, Shigehiro ^c   Nossik, Dmitri ^d   Takahashi, Kiyomi ^c   Hara, Takashi ^b   Tochikubo, Osamu ^a   Kitamura, Katsuhiko ^a   Honda, Mitsuo ^b   Nakasone, Tadashi ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INJECTION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UKRAINE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0036399462     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922202320567897     Document Type: Article

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