Difficulties in classifying A/G recombinants: Methodological problems or genetic variability?

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 840-846

  Brindicci, Gaetano ^a   Punzi, Grazia ^a   Lagioia, Antonella ^a   Lo Caputo, Sergio ^b   Ladisa, Nicoletta ^a   Di Nicuolo, Giuseppe ^c   Saracino, Annalisa ^d   Angarano, Gioacchino ^d   Monno, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENES, ENV; GENES, POL; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34447252371     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2006.0205     Document Type: Article

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