Different subtype distributions in two cities in Myanmar: Evidence for independent clusters of HIV-1 transmission

AIDS

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 633-636

  Motomura, Kazushi ^a,b   Kusagawa, Shigeru ^a   Lwin, Hla Htut ^c   Thwe, Min ^c   Kato, Kayoko ^a   Oishi, Kazunori ^b   Yamamoto, Naoki ^a   Zaw, Myint ^c   Nagatake, Tsuyoshi ^b   Takebe, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Department of Health   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYANMAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 0037423870     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200303070-00023     Document Type: Article

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