Global Molecular Epidemiology of HIV: Understanding the Genesis of AIDS Pandemic

Advances in Pharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-25

  Takebe, Yutaka ^a   Uenishi, Rie ^a   Li, Xiaojie ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ASIA; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; ASIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HIV-2; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 37349080586     PISSN: 10543589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-3589(07)56001-1     Document Type: Review

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