Genetic characterization of full-length HIV type 1 genomes from 3 infected paid blood donors in Henan, China [1]

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 501-503

  Liu, Li ^a   Su, Bo ^a   Zhuang, Ke ^a   Tien, Po ^a   Chen, Zhiwei ^a,b   Zhang, Linqi ^a,b,c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD DONORS; CHINA; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 27944457510     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.qai.0000182228.00333.e1     Document Type: Letter

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