Implementation of a multiregion hybridization assay to characterize HIV-1 strains detected among injecting drug users in Manipur, India

Intervirology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 175-178

  Sarkar, Roni ^a   Sengupta, Satarupa ^a   Mullick, Ranajoy ^a   Singh, N Brajachand ^b   Sarkar, Kamalesh ^a   Chakrabarti, Sekhar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Drug users; Heteroduplex mobility assay; HIV strains; Hybridization; Multiregion hybridization assay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INDIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 66749187248     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000224645     Document Type: Article

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