HIV-2 subtype circulating in India (south)

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-222

  Kannangai, Rajesh ^a   Shaji, Ramachandran V ^a   Ramalingam, Sandeep ^a   Jesudason, Mary V ^a   Abraham, Oriapadickal C ^a   George, Renu ^a   Shanmugam, Arvindh P ^b   Schwartz, David H ^b   Sridharan, Gopalan ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope nucleotide sequence; HIV 2; India (south)

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

EID: 0038417190     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200306010-00017     Document Type: Article

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