Identification of a new HIV Type 1 circulating recombinant form (CRF38-BF1) in Uruguay

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-356

  Ruchansky, Dora ^a,b,c   Casado, Concepción ^a   Russi, José C ^b   Arbiza, Juan R ^c   Lopez Galindez, Cecilio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio Nacional de Referencia VIH SIDA   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URUGUAY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URUGUAY;

EID: 65449131711     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2008.0248     Document Type: Article

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