High prevalence of genetically similar HIV-1 recombinants among infected sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1455-1460

  Land, Allison M ^a   Luo, Ma ^a   Pilon, Richard ^b   Sandstrom, Paul ^b   Embree, Joanne ^a   Wachihi, Charles ^c   Kimani, Joshua ^c   Plummer, Francis A ^a,b   Ball, T Blake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VPU PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ADULT; DNA, VIRAL; ENV GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEINS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROSTITUTION; PROVIRUSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

EID: 57049160475     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2008.0179     Document Type: Article

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