Identification of unique B/C recombinant strains of HIV-1 in the southern state of Karnataka, India

AIDS

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1426-1429

  Siddappa, Nagadenahalli Byrareddy ^a,b   Dash, Prashanta Kumar ^a   Mahadevan, Anita ^b   Desai, Anita ^b   Jayasuryan, Narayana ^c   Ravi, Vasanthapuram ^b   Satishchandra, Parthasarathy ^b   Shankar, Susarla K ^b   Ranga, Udaykumar ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^c Microtest Innovations Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 29144534206     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000180795.49016.89     Document Type: Article

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