HIV type 1 subtypes among blood donors in the Mbeya region of Southwest Tanzania

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 895-901

  Arroyo, Miguel A ^a   Hoelscher, Michael ^b   Sanders Buell, Eric ^c   Herbinger, Karl Heinz ^b   Samky, Eleuter ^d   Maboko, Leonard ^e   Hoffmann, Oliver ^b   Robb, Merlin R ^c   Birx, Deborah L ^a   McCutchan, Francine E ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Mbeya Referral Hospital Tanzania   (Tanzania)

^e Mbeya Medical Research Project   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MULTIREGION HYBRIDIZATION ASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLASMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING;

BLOOD DONORS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA;

EID: 4344708918     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/0889222041725235     Document Type: Article

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