Identification of attenuated variants of HIV-1 circulating recombinant form 01_AE that are associated with slow disease progression due to gross genetic alterations in the nefl/long terminal repeat sequences

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-61

  Kondo, Makiko ^a   Shima, Takako ^a   Nishizawa, Masako ^c   Sudo, Koji ^a   Iwamuro, Shinya ^b   Okabe, Takeshi ^b   Takebe, Yutaka ^c   Imai, Mitsunobu ^a  

^a KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Atsugi City Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEF PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENES, NEF; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL LOAD; VIRULENCE;

EID: 20844432390     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430739     Document Type: Article

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