Genetic characterization of HIV-1 variants which caused an epidemic among narcomaniacs in the CIS countries

Voprosy Virusologii

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 253-254

  Bobkov, A F ^a   Pokrovsky, V V ^a   Selimova, L M ^a   Ladnaya, N N ^a   Kazennova, Ye V ^a   Bobkova, M R ^a   Khanina, T A ^a   Kravchenko, A V ^a   Yurin, O G ^a   Saukhat, S R ^a   Zverev, S Ya ^a   Fedotov, E A ^a   Momot, O F ^a   Kolesnik, A N ^a   Perekhodchenko, Ye N ^a   Cheingsong Popov, R ^a   Weber, D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Characteristics; Community of Independent States; Drug users; Epidemic; Genome; HIV infection; Type I human immunodeficiency virus; Variants

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944445348     PISSN: 05074088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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