Complex patterns of the HIV-1 epidemic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Evidence for expansion of circulating recombinant form CRF33_01B and detection of multiple other recombinants

Virology

Volumn 367, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 288-297

  Wang, Bin ^a   Lau, Katherine A ^a   Ong, Lai Yee ^b   Shah, Meet ^a   Steain, Megan C ^a   Foley, Brian ^c   Dwyer, Dominic E ^d   Chew, Choo Beng ^d   Kamarulzaman, Adeeba ^b   Ng, Kee Peng ^b   Saksena, Nitin K ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c HIV Databases   (United States)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIDS; Circulating recombinant forms; Epidemiology; HIV; Malaysia; Recombination

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, ENV; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; REASSORTANT VIRUSES;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 34848869037     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.05.033     Document Type: Article

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