Detection of HERV-K(HML-2) viral RNA in plasma of HIV type 1-infected individuals

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 979-984

  Contreras Galindo, Rafael ^a,b   Kaplan, Mark H ^b   Markovitz, David M ^b   Lorenzo, Eric ^a   Yamamura, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 33846252381     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2006.22.979     Document Type: Article

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