Novel evolutionary analyses of full-length HIV type 1 subtype C molecular clones from Cape Town, South Africa

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1327-1332

  Zur Megede, Jan ^a   Engelbrecht, Susan ^b   De Oliveira, Tulio ^c   Cassol, Sharon ^c   Scriba, Thomas J ^b   Van Rensburg, Estrelita Janse ^b   Barnett, Susan W ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MODEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036936521     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922202320886370     Document Type: Article

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