Development of a Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification Assay That Uses gag-Based Molecular Beacons to Distinguish between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype C and C′ Infections in Ethiopia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1534-1541

  Ayele, Workenesh ^a   Pollakis, Georgios ^e   Abebe, Almaz ^b   Fisseha, Bitew ^b   Tegbaru, Belete ^b   Tesfaye, Girma ^c   Mengistu, Yohannes ^d   Wolday, Dawit ^a   Van Gemen, Bob ^f   Goudsmit, Jaap ^g,h   Dorigo Zetsma, Wendelien ^a   De Baar, Michel P ^f  

^a Ethio Netherlands AIDS Research Project ENARP   (Ethiopia)

^b ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c Ethiopian Red Cross Society   (Ethiopia)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f Primagen   (Netherlands)

^g Ctr Poverty Related Communic Dis   (Netherlands)

^h CRUCELL HOLLAND BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; ETHIOPIA; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENES, GAG; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 16544368707     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1534-1541.2004     Document Type: Article

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