Predominance of a rare type of HIV-1 in Estonia

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 598-605

  Adojaan, Maarja ^a,b   Kivisild, Toomas ^c   Männik, Andres ^a   Krispin, Tõnu ^b   Ustina, Valentina ^d   Zilmer, Kai ^d   Liebert, Elo ^e   Jaroslavtsev, Nikolai ^f   Priimägi, Ludmilla ^g   Tefanova, Valentina ^g   Schmidt, Jelena ^h   Krohn, Kai ^a   Villems, Richard ^b,c   Salminen, Mika ⁱ   Ustav, Mart ^a,b  

^a FIT Biotech Oyj Plc Eesti   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d WEST TALLINN CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^e Ministery of Justice   (Estonia)

^f Prison of Tallinn   (Estonia)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^h Puru Hospital   (Estonia)

ⁱ NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Circulating recombinant form CRF06_cpx; Intravenous drug users; Unique recombinant forms

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; ESTONIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS TYPING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESTONIA; FUSION PROTEINS, GAG-POL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 23244436648     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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