HIV type 1 group M clades infecting subjects from rural villages in equatorial rain forests of Cameroon

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 495-505

  Zhong, Ping ^a,b   Burda, Sherri ^a   Urbanski, Mateusz ^a   Kenfack, Henriette ^c   Tongo, Marcel ^c   Heyndrickx, Leo ^d   Nanfack, Aubin ^c   Shang, Judith ^c   Agyingi, Lucy ^e   Zolla Pazner, Susan ^a,f   Zekeng, Leopold ^c   Nyambi, Phillipe ^a,f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Disease Control and Prevention Center of Changning Area   (China)

^c Laboratoire de Sante Hygiene Mobile   (Cameroon)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Heteroduplex mobility analysis (HMA); HIV; Rural villages; Sequences; Subtypes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 0037114891     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200212150-00007     Document Type: Article

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