Evidence of a novel B/C recombinant exhibiting unique breakpoints of near full-length HIV type 1 genome from northeastern India

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 229-234

  Lakhashe, Samir ^a   Tripathy, Srikanth ^a   Paranjape, Ramesh ^a   Bhattacharya, Jayanta ^a  

^a NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INDIA; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; INDIA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 39549120650     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2007.0229     Document Type: Article

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