HIV type 1 infection in Pygmy hunter gatherers is from contact with Bantu rather than from nonhuman primates

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 435-439

  Ndembi, Nicaise ^a   Yumo, Habakkuk ^b   Takehisa, Jun ^a   Takemura, Taichiro ^c   Kobayashi, Eiji ^a   Ngansop, Charlotte ^b   Songok, Elijah ^a   Miura, Tomoyuki ^c   Ido, Eiji ^c   Hayami, Masanori ^c   Kaptue, Lazare ^b   Ichimura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENE PRODUCTS, POL; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV INTEGRASE; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0038521693     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922203765551773     Document Type: Article

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